Compulsory core modules
1. Systematics and Evolution of Plants, Fungi and Animals
Contact: Karsten Wesche
Summary: Sound knowledge on species and their evolution is key for understanding biodiversity. This module covers the basics of systematics of plants, fungi and animals, the evolution of important traits, handling of taxonomic literature, and an introduction to taxonomic research using natural history collections.
2. Applied Ecology
Contact: Karsten Wesche
Summary: The module covers the basics of environmental history, biogeography and ecosystem science (terrestrial and aquatic systems), and implementation of this knowledge in the applied context, especially nature conservation, monitoring and biodiversity assessment.
3. Basic Molecular Approaches in Biodiversity Research
Contact: Stefan Wanke
Summary: Methods in molecular biology are widely used in all kinds of biological subdisciplines as the ultimative toolbox. This class sets the basis for all other molecular oriented classes of the Master Organismic and Molecular Biodiversity.
4. Collecting and Analysing Biodiversity Data
Contact: Karsten Wesche
Summary: The module includes basics of data collection in morphometrics and ecology, raw data organization and data handling, as well as descriptive and inferential statistics (univariate and multivariate) with relevance to ecology/taxonomy.