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GE2404:03

Biogeography and Climatology

Townsville

HECS Band 2

39 hours lectures, 27 hours practicals, 24 hours fieldwork. Semester 2.

Staff:

Dr J Luly,

Dr R Jaycock.

The subject provides a basic introduction to climatology and biogeography, with a particular emphasis on the savanna and arid ecosystems of northern Australia as well as neighbouring Pacific and Asian regions. There will be a component devoted to climate change at a variety of time scales and the implications of contemporary climate change to the trajectory of ecological processes.

Learning Objectives:

an understanding of the principles of climatology and biogeography;

an understanding of the relationships between climatic, edaphic and palaeogeographical patterns and the organisation of the Australian biota;

appreciation of the relationships between Australian biota and those of regional neighbours;

an appreciation of the complexities of predicting biotic change in response to anthropogenic modification of the biosphere.

Assessment by examination (35%); field report (20%); essay (30%); practicals (15%).