• ECTS

    8 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

Description

The general objective is to consolidate the basic knowledge of ecology acquired by the students, and to give them the tools to mobilize it in an integrative way to interpret the functioning of ecological systems. The courses include: 1) lectures on the concepts of ecology from the population scale to macroecological scales, with examples of applications that place the discipline in the current ecological and societal context; 2) practical and directed work focused on tools (sampling strategies, modeling, data analysis); 3) field courses during which students are invited to ask themselves relevant scientific questions based on observation in a situation, and to mobilize their knowledge in order to respond to them in an argumentative manner.

Synthetic content of the EU :

- CM: History of the emergence of concepts in ecology; Population dynamics / metapopulations; Biotic interactions and food webs; Community ecology, meta-communities; Ecology of ecosystems / functional ecology; Notions of macroecology / biogeography; Global changes and ecosystem functioning;

- Field: Integrative Analysis of Ecosystem Functioning in Situations;

- TD/TP: sampling and experimental strategies in ecology; modeling in population/meta-population dynamics, community/meta-community ecology, food webs; biodiversity metrics (alpha, beta, etc)."

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Objectives

- Knowledge of the history of the emergence of concepts in ecology;

- Mastery of the theoretical bases of ecology, from the population scale (by making the link with population genetics, which is covered in the S1 evolution course) to macroecological scales;

- Ability to link the theoretical corpus of ecology and evolutionary biology;

- Knowledge of societal issues associated with biodiversity and the functioning of ecological systems;

- Mastery of the basic tools of ecological modeling (population/metapopulation dynamics, communities, food webs);

- Ability to implement a sampling or experimental strategy to answer an ecological question;

- Ability to characterize biodiversity at different scales (alpha, beta, gamma), knowledge of inventory and analysis methods.

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Necessary pre-requisites

- Advanced level in general ecology

- Skills acquired in the ecology degree courses (functional ecology, community ecology).

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Knowledge control

Continuous assessment : 100%.

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