EV2404 - Biogeography and Climatology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Environmental Sciences |
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 Outcomes
- an appreciation of the complexities of predicting biotic change in response to anthropogenic modification of the biosphere;
- 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.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
- The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner.
| Prerequisites: | One level 1 BZ BT or EA subject or EV1001 or GE1400 or permission of HoS |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | GE2402 and GE2403 and GE2404 and GE2452 and GE3452 and GE3453 and EV2452 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 31-Aug-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Jonathan Luly. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (35%); tutorial attendance and participation (15%); essays (30%); field report (20%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 31-Aug-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Jonathan Luly. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (35%); tutorial attendance and participation (15%); essays (30%); field report (20%). |
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