ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Botany, External department linked to the degrees
Areas: Botany, Área externa M. U. en Biodiversidad Terrestre: Caracterización, Conservación y Gestión
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
• Ability to recognize and identify elements of terrestrial ecosystems.
• Ability to detect and evaluate the interaction between biota and physical environment in an ecosystem.
• Ability to detect and evaluate biological interactions in an ecosystem.
• Ability to identify the processes of change in terrestrial ecosystems.
Expositive activities (14 h) (Theoretical subjects):
1. Habitat and ecosystem concepts. Biotic and abiotic variables in terrestrial ecosystems.
2. Biological interactions
3. Communities: types and main features
4. Changes in terrestrial ecosystems. Exchanges of matter and energy
Interactives activities (7 h) (practices, seminars, tutorials):
1. Community analysis.
2. Quantification of diversity and functional groups in communities.
3. Study and analysis of biological interactions in ecosystems
4. Exhibition of works
• Begon M., Townsend C.R., Harper J.L., 2006. Ecology (4th ed). 759pp. Blackwell.
• Hill D, Fasham M, Tucker G, Shewry M, Shaw P., 2006. Handbook of Biodiversity methods. 589pp. Cambridge University Press.
• Loidi, J. 2017. The Vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula, vol 1. Springer. 676 pp. Cham, Switzerland
• Peinado M., Monje L. & Martínez J.M. 2006. Manual de Geobotánica: El paisaje vegetal de Castilla-La Mancha. Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, Consejería de Medio Ambiente. Toledo.
• Rivas-Martínez S., Díaz T., Fernández, F., Izco J., Loidi J., lousa M., & Penas A. 2002. Vascular plant communities of Spain and Portugal. Itinera geobotanica 15 (2): 433-922.
• van Dyke F, 2008. Conservation Biology. 480pp. Sringer.
• van der Maerl E (Ed.), 2005. Vegetation Ecology. 411pp. Blackwell.
BASIC AND GENERAL SKILLS
CG01 - Acquisition of the ability to analyse current and future situations of terrestrial biodiversity
CG02 - Use of appropriate terminology on terrestrial biodiversity
CG03 - Use of information sources and databases for the analysis and to produce specific information on terrestrial biodiversity
CB7 - Students should know how to apply their skills to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their study area
CB8 - Students should be able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on information that, even though incomplete or limited, considers social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments
CROSS-SECTIONAL SKILLS
CT1 – Ability for analysis and synthesis
CT2 - Ability for reasoning, argumentation and decision making
CT3 - Competence in teamwork and collectively tackle problems
CT4 -Ability to obtain adequate, diverse and updated information in different languages
SPECIFIC SKILLS
CE6 – To know techniques for identification of organisms and biological interaction types.
Exhibition classes supported with classroom tools (waxing, computer, video cannon), and supplemented with online teaching support (Virtual Campus). In them the teacher presents concepts and / or procedures, providing basic information necessary to understand a theoretical perspective or a practical procedure, promoting the participation of students.
Interactive classes: Fieldwork complemented with laboratory practices and cabinet work; its objective is the observation in situ of aspects of the physical and biological environment, the realization of experiments, the interpretation, processing and resolution of practical cases and / or the learning and application of computer software, with the support and supervision of the teaching staff
Realization of works and reports. Oral presentation of individual or group works. Debate with teachers and students. Follow-up, forums and online debates.
The proposed methodology follows the guidelines of teaching based on projects developed in the natural environment.
The teaching will take place in the Courel Biological Station (USC) and surroundings, during three consecutive days in spring. During this period, expository classes will alternate with interactive ones; the latter will be organized by groups of students. Each group will be in charge of developing a practical project related to some of the contents of the course. The last working session will be devoted to the organization of the results of the projects and a brief public presentation of them.
The schedule of distribution of the teaching will be conditioned by the climatic conditions that occur during those days.
% MINIMUM % MAXIMUM COMPETENCES
Continuous evaluation 30 100 CG01,CG02,CG03
CB7, CB8, CT1, CT2, CT3, CT4
Test 0 70 CG01, CG02, CT1
CT2, CE6
The main evaluation method will be the follow-up of the individual participation of each student in the work group, and the preparation and presentation of the final report of the project. If necessary, the evaluation will be completed with an exam.
Hours Attendance (%)
Lectures 14 100
Interactive classes 7 100
Tutorials 1 100
Exam 2 100
Personal studies 51 0
Total hours of work 75
Attend participatively the theoretical and practical classes.
Use the proposed computer resources and consult the library with contributed bibliography
Contingency Plan
In this plan, the methodology and evaluation are presented considering the possible scenarios set out in the guidelines for the development of safe classroom teaching, course 2020-2021, (Scenario 1: adapted normality; Scenario 2: distance; Scenario 3: closure of Centre). In all cases that involve attendance, the recommended hygienic measures will be taken (hydrogel, mandatory mask and minimum safety distance between people).
METHODOLOGY
Scenario 1:
It corresponds to what was previously indicated in the previous sections of this guide.
Scenario 2:
The expository classes and the tutorials will follow the exposed calendar, and will be taught electronically and preferably synchronously, through the Remote Campus platform of the University of Vigo.
Field practices will be maintained in the surroundings of the Scientific Station do Courel (USC) according to the exposed for Scenario 1 whenever the situation allows the displacement and the overnight stay in the area; otherwise they will be replaced by applied cases documented via telematics (audiovisuals, presentations, scientific articles, technical documents, etc.) (see scenario 3), using the Remote Campus platform of the University of Vigo.
Scenario 3:
All activities are carried out electronically, preferably using the Remote Campus platform of the University of Vigo.
The practical teaching will be replaced by applied cases documented via telematics (audiovisuals, documents, presentations, etc). They will be debated and discussed using the forum and other remote Campus tools. For this, the teachers will propose hypotheses and topics of thematic focus on the subject so that the students work on them in groups.
EVALUATION SYSTEM
Scenario 1:
The evaluation of teaching will be maintained as proposed in the previous sections of this Guide.
Scenario 2 and 3:
The possibility of conducting a face-to-face exam will be ruled out, and all the weight of the evaluation will be transferred to the presentation of the final report and the proposed debates. The exhibition of the work will take place in the virtual environment of the Remote Campus of the University of Vigo.
Joaquin Gimenez De Azcarate Cornide
- Department
- Botany
- Area
- Botany
- joaquin.gimenezdeazcarate [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor