Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Advanced Master in Environmental Sciences and Management in Developing Countries (Registrations are closed) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
This cursus of zoogeography & population dynamics is divided in 12 chapters, the ten first being largely inspired by the reference: Coxx, Moore & Ladle (2016) "Biogeography: an ecological and evolutionay approach" Wiley-Blackwell.
Chapter 1: History of Biogeography
Chapter 2: the distribution patterns
Chapter 3: Community & ecosystem
Chapter 4: the biodiversity patterns
Chapter 5: the plate tectonics
Chapter 6: Notions in Evolution
Chapter 7: insular zoogeography
Chapter 8: zoogeography of seas & oceans
Chapter 9: historical zoogeography of continents
Chapter 10: the glacial periods
Chapter 11: basic notion of population dynamic
Chapter 12: population viability analysis (demonstrative lecture)
The lecture is in French, and the support of lecture is avalaible online before each lecture seance
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Understanding the connection between major evolutionary and geological processes, the notion of geological time
Understanding patterns of distributions of species and species communities, as well as ecosystems
Understand the mechanisms that lead to similarity and disparity of animal communities around the world.
identify, define and explain basic concepts in zoogeography and population dynamics.
Be able to describe species distributions on the basis of these concepts. Be able to propose mechanisms on the basis of these distributions.
Be able to cite concrete examples of these concepts.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
face-to-face lecture (unless health constraints prevent it, in which case courses could be given virtually, via Teams or LifeSize or Collaborate, depending on the tools available)
The lessons consist of theoretical courses via powerpoint lecture with oral comments (divided into chapters). Not all the course information is noted in the slides of the Powerpoint, the student must take notes during the lecture (or else complete his information if he was absent).
Important concepts are listed at the end of each chapter.
Students are invited to ask questions and share their thoughts.
Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
Additional information:
If health conditions no longer allow for face-to-face teaching, an alternative via video conference will be offered.
Recommended or required readings
recommanded reading but not imposed:
Coxx CB, Moore PD & Ladle RJ (2016) Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary approach. 9th edition. Wiley-Blackwell, 482 p.
Exam(s) in session
Any session
- In-person
written exam ( open-ended questions ) AND oral exam
Additional information:
The exam is face-to-face.
Depending on the size of the class, the exam may be oral (small class) or written (large class).
In case of oral, each student is questioned on different questions, if written, everyone shares the same questions.
If the exam cannot be done face-to-face for health reasons, then the exam will be automatically oral via the tool available for a videoconference
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
location of lecture will be communicated in your lecture schedule. Be careful also in which university the lecture is given. (last times, it was in Louvain-la-Neuve).
Contacts
Johann.Delcourt@uliege.be
04 366 5049 (Email is better way to contact me)