Ecology II

Teacher(s)

Hance Thierry; Nieberding Caroline; Van Dyck Hans; Wesselingh Renate (coordinator);

Language

French

Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.

Main themes

In this course the basics of ecology that were presented in the first course, LBIO1117 Ecologie I, are treated in more detail, including elements of population dynamics and community ecology.

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :
1	To give an outline of spatial-temporal mechanisms of adaptation of living beings, of the way populations and their regulation systems function. In particular, analysis of population-environment systems are seen and emphasis on correlations between natural history of individuals and population strategies with different changes in their environment. We also want the students to understand the aim and conceptual scene of behaviour ecology (relations between natural selection, ecology and behaviour) and to be able to use these concepts by testing the hypothesis in a decisional way.

Content

This course will be given by Thierry Hance
The topics covered are
1) demecology and population dynamics based on data drawn from observation and experience of the living world;
2) Prey-predator relationships and competition
3) Analysis of food-web and living communities
3) An introduction to sociality

Teaching methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Classroom ex-cathedra course, reading of articles and practical work in the field with a synthesis presentation

Evaluation methods

Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information in this section is particularly likely to change.

Written exam with open questions.
Skills: Acquire a synthetic spatio-temporal view of the adaptive mechanisms of living beings to their environment, and the consequences of individual adaptation on the functioning and regulation of their populations. In particular, it involves analyzing all the components of the "population-environment" system and highlighting the correlations between the natural history traits of individuals and the strategies of populations with the various changes in their living environment. .

Other information

La plateforme moodle est l’endroit où vous trouverez, après inscription nécessaire, toutes les informations concernant le cours. Inscrivez-vous à cette plateforme : https://moodleucl.uclouvain.be/course/LBIO1351.

Bibliography

• —Robert Rickleffs and Gary L. Miller 2005. Ecologie. De Boeck, Bruxelles, 821 pp
• —Thomas M. Smith & Robert Leo Smith 2009. Elements of Ecology. Benjamin Cummings (Pearson Intl). San Francisco, 650 pp
• —Robert Barbault, 2008. Ecologie Générale. Dunod, Paris, 390 pp
• —James R. Carey 1993. Applied demography for biologist. Oxford university press. 206 pp
• —Michael Begon, John L. Harper and Colin R. Towsend, 1986. Ecology: individuals, populations and communities. Blackwell, Oxford, 876 pp
• + articles scientifiques

Teaching materials

• fichiers ppt des cours; Textbook de S.A Levin et al (2009) « the Princeton guide for Ecology »

Faculty or entity

BIOL