ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Hourly volume
16,5h
Description
Understand the weather and know how to use the climato for an ecologist / naturalist.
- climate measurement methods, bioclimate indices;
- Computer workstation: climatic data, modern archives (century), oscillations and trends;
- weather reminders, dominant parameters: from the major biomes to the topoclimate ;
- average climate vs. extreme events, their role and impacts on biodiversity ;
- Group work (restitution): regional themes, shared oral presentation;
- past and future climate changes, their impacts on biodiversity.
Objectives
- know how to use archive data while avoiding the pitfalls
- differentiate interannual variability from medium- to long-term trends/oscillations
- differentiate between the impacts of climate and those of other modules on living organisms
- anticipate the perverse effects of (over-)media coverage of the climate change phenomenon
Necessary pre-requisites
Complementary to the UE meteo-climate-water cycle
Knowledge control
100% continuous assessment (table exam + graded practical work + group oral)
Syllabus
Understand the weather and know how to use the climato for an ecologist / naturalist.
- climate measurement methods, bioclimate indices;
- Computer workstation: climatic data, modern archives (century), oscillations and trends;
- Group work (TD): regional themes, shared oral presentation;
- weather reminders, dominant parameters: from the major biomes to the topoclimate ;
- average climate vs. extreme events, their role and impacts on biodiversity ;
- past and future climate changes, their impacts on biodiversity.
Additional information
Person in charge*: Errol VĂ©la, errol.vela @ umontpellier.fr @
U.E. open to the BE course (20 students max) and to the CME-SVT course (20 students max).