Forest Ecology (Winter Term)

Module Responsibility: Jörg Müller, Oliver Mitesser, Maike Huszarik

Languages of Instruction: German and/or English

Content: Arthropod and Vertebrate communities in forest ecosystems, assessment methods, impact of management on diversity patterns and functional groups. This course takes place in the Bavarian Forest National Park and includes field work in forest ecosystems, an excursion and statistical data analysis. 

Students acquire knowledge of the species diversity, structure, and functional role of arthropod communities in forests. Using complex data sets, they learn to analyze and discuss community structuring patterns. The connection to nature conservation-related aspects is established.

The course content is tailored to current research each semester, and information on procedures and organization will be announced at the start of each semester.