Teaching at the chair
The Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation offers different lectures for the courses of studies to forestry, scenery architecture, geography, biology and tropical forestry and management. Main focuses in the courses are the subjects Biodiversity, Nature conservation and Vegetation science.
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Teaching at the Chair of Biodiversity and Nature Conservation
At our chair, numerous courses in the fields of biodiversity and nature conservation, especially of plant species and biotope types, are offered. Besides conventional lectures and seminars, excursions and field tutorials take place. In addition to the courses we are in charge of, we also contribute to other modules.
Most courses take place during summer term in the growing season. Our target audience, in addition to students of forest sciences, are students of other fields such as geography, landscape architecture or biology.
In the compulsory module “Vegetation Science, plant communities and biotope types” (bachelor forest sciences), basics of vegetation ecology and the classification of central European vegetation are taught. Special emphasis is put on the conservation value and the ecology of near-natural forest vegetation as well as the indicator function of plant species and types of vegetation.
Basic information and sample applications of nature and species conservation measures are presented in the module “Strategies and measures in nature conservation” that takes place in the winter term.
In the bachelor module “Biodiversity“, ethical and ecological basics of biodiversity as well as methods for quantification and assessment of biodiversity are taught in depth.
With the module “Management and monitoring of protected areas” within the profile “Biodiversity”, we want to address in particular master students of forest sciences, who want to learn more about applied and practical aspects of nature conservation.
Within the Master Course “Spatial Development and Natural Resource Management”, the module “Biodiversity and nature conservation” introduces to the survey and assessment of worth protecting biocoenosis.
Topics for master and bachelor theses are oriented to the key aspects of our courses. As an important part of ongoing research projects or (according to prior agreement) following your own ideas, the development of manifold topics for master and bachelor theses is possible.