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Faculty of Science
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Functioning and adaptation of tropical plants
ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
The objective of this course is to explore the diversity of life forms and morphological and functional adaptations of plants living in tropical regions. Each of the major biological types will be analyzed (trees, grasses, lianas, epiphytes, hemi-epiphytes, etc.) in order to understand their architecture and modes of development, and to study the particularities of their functioning.
A comparative reflection will attempt to define the nature of the adaptations that have allowed these plants to occupy all the available niches.
Particular emphasis will be placed, in an evolutionary perspective, on the study of the bio-mechanical and in situ conduction properties that characterize some of them.
Another focus will be put on tree ontogeny by addressing notions of architecture in relation to the processes involved in the establishment of large tropical tree crowns, including root strategies. The interaction between vegetative structures, reproduction and secondary growth will be addressed in practical work on tropical material.
The notions of growth and competition in a stand will be approached on simple cases with notions of growth modeling.
Mediation and Governance of Territories
ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Qualitative survey methods in social sciences
ECTS
4 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Hourly volume
30h
This course introduces students to social science research (from the construction of the subject to the writing of a report), with an emphasis on qualitative methods. It is essentially composed of a field survey on the general theme of managing nature in the city. It aims to introduce students to the social dimensions of environmental management issues, as well as to the production and processing of qualitative data in the social sciences. In this respect, it trains students to develop diagnoses of environmental management situations by working on three main types of skills: (i) Producing and analyzing heterogeneous data (written, oral, observational), (ii) Analyzing multidimensional, complex and singular situations, (iii) Recounting the complexity of these situations to a public.