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Høst 2016
BIO-8016 Northern food web ecology - 10 stp
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Application deadline
Registration deadline for PhD students at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway: August 1st.
Application deadline for other applicants: June 1st.
Admission requirements
PhD students or holders of a Norwegian master´s degree of five years or 3+ 2 years (or equivalent) may be admitted. Valid documentation is a statement from your institution that you are a registered PhD student, or a Master´s Diploma with Diploma Supplement / English translation of the diploma. PhD students are exempt from semester fee.
Admission requirement is a Norwegian master´s degree (or equivalent). PhD students must document their student status in order to get exemption for student fee.
PhD students at UiT register for the course through StudentWeb. The registration for autumn semester starts in the middle of June.Other applicants apply for admission through SøknadsWeb.
Contact Ingjerd Gauslaa Nilsen at the BFE-faculty if you have troubles or questions regarding registration to the course.
Objective of the course
- To demonstrate how a food web perspective is useful for describing and analyzing ecological dynamics emerging from the trophic interaction in ecosystems.
- To give the students a basic understanding of how basic mechanism in populations and communities leads to ecological dynamics through training in the use of simple models to understand such dynamics.
- To provide an overview of the structural characteristics of terrestrial food webs and how these vary in time and space in boreal and arctic biomes.
- To give an introduction to some modern empirical methods of studying trophic interactions.
- To learn what are the key processes and functions in northern terrestrial food webs by means of illustrious case studies.
- To train students in reading, presenting and discussing scientific research papers efficiently and critically: student seminars.
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Assessment
There is a compulsory project work connected to the model laboratory part of the course that needs to be completed before the exam, the PhD students will have a more advanced compulsory project work. Each student is also required to lead a seminar during the seminar parts of the courses.
Oral exam. A graded scale of five marks from A to E for pass and F for fail. The project work needs to be approved in order to do the exam.
There will be a re-sit examination for students that did not pass the previous ordinary examination.