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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Biology & Biochemistry |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take BB10012 AND take BB20040
In taking this module you cannot take BB20041 |
| Description:
| Aims: To introduce the student to natural habitats in ways that enable the student to recognise patterns of distribution and behaviour of organisms and to question the basis of these patterns and behaviours. To introduce the student to the use of appropriate sampling patterns, experimental design, data gathering, statistical analysis and report writing. Learning Outcomes: After taking this course the student should be able to: * describe and explain how aspects of behavioural ecology and of community structure can be investigated * explain how these behaviours and structure may have arisen and how they are maintained * design and perform a short field-based investigation; analyse and graphically present data * prepare a written report of field-based investigations. Skills: Learning and studying T/F/A, Written communication T/F/A, Oral communication T/F/A, Numeracy & computation T/F/A, Information technology T/F, Problem solving T/F, Working independently T/F. Content: Visit to ecosystem types of varying complexity and subject to different kinds of selection process. These include coastal hills, marshland, rocky shore, sand dune, estuarine and coastal grassland habitats. Investigation of components of these ecosystem types including spatial distribution, size and age distributions, reproduction and behaviour. Each student designs and carries out a two-day field-based investigation. A report, including an account of this investigation, is completed during the course. A short talk about the investigation is presented on the last day of the field trip. Students are required to make a financial contribution to the field course to cover accommodation and food costs. This charge will be waived for those in receipt of a University of Bath bursary. Since the course may be run more than once to accommodate all of the students wishing to do it, students are required to be available for any of the courses which will usually be held out of term-time (usually, though not always, the two weeks of the Easter vacation). |
| Programme availability: |
BB20226 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Biology & Biochemistry
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