Forest & Landscape | |||||||||||||||
Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||
Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||
Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||
Examination | Continuous Assessment written examination Portfolio Examination All aids allowed Description of Examination: The examination is based on weekly deliverables. Max. 75 % of the excersizes can be subject for examination Weight: 100% 13-point scale, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||
Requirement For Attending Exam | A min. of 75 % of the excersizes have to be completed/submitted | ||||||||||||||
Organisation of Teaching | 50 % lectures 40 % excercises 10 % field work | ||||||||||||||
Block Placement | Block 1 Week Structure: B | ||||||||||||||
Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||
Basic sciences Comprehend the landscape as a composition of landscape attributes. Understand landscape patterns - i.e origin of landscapes, impact of man on the development of landscapes, impact of natural conditions on the landscape. Applied sciences Ability to synthesise attributes into unique ecotopes, aggregate ecotopes into chores, and segregate landscapes into chores and ecotopes. Transfer the models Island - bio - geography and input-output to concrete landscapes. Comprehend landscape change, detect and describe changes in landscape patterns. Relate landscape changes to specific attributes. Ethics and values Comprehend the concepts of landscape function and multifunctionality; land use related functions, landscape services and transcending functions. Comprehend the linking of structures with fluxes of matter, energy and genetic information. | |||||||||||||||
Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
The aim of the course is to give the participants a comprehensive overview of the main stream European and American schools of Landscape Ecology. The participants are introduced to general theories, and trained in the most common pratical methods in landscape ecology. | |||||||||||||||
Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
Landscape attributes; geology, terrain, hydrology, land cover and the technosphere Landscape patterns and structures; Types of configuration of ecostopes and elements on the earth surface. Aggregation of ecotopes in chores. Landscape function; Fluxes of energy, matter and genes. Isolation and contact, the concept of systems. Multifunctional landscapes; Ecological function, land use related functions and services, transcending functions - designated and perceived landscapes. Structure-function interrelationships; interrelationships between structure and function, species movement in landscapes, island biogeography, landscape model: patch-corridor-matrix Landscape dynamics and change; Causes behind changes, stability, resistance and resilience. Landscape classification; deductive and inductive mapping, land evaluation, guiding principles and properties, indicators Landscape scenarios; Backcasting and forecasting scenarios. | |||||||||||||||
Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
The course is given as a combination of introducing lectures, excercises, field work, and in-depth lectures. Reports from the excercises are included in a final report from the course. The excercises are performed in small groups under supervision form th ecourse responsible. | |||||||||||||||
Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
Henrik Vejre, hv@life.ku.dk, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning/Urban and landscape studies, Phone: 35331819 | |||||||||||||||
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