 | Name: | Scale Issues in Ecology |
| No.: | 817004Y |
| Hour: | 20 | Credit: | 1 |
| Instructor: | ZHANG Na |
| Course Description: |
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| This 20 hour seminar aims to give students a recognition and understanding of some scale issues, which are one of the biggest challenges in modern ecology, and most importantly, to inspire students’ interest in this field. The course prerequisites include course work in landscape ecology, ecology or natural geography, etc. By the end of course, students will gain advanced understanding of scale issues, including concepts of scale, scale effect and scaling, scale effect analysis, multi-scale spatial pattern analysis, and principles, methods and applications of scaling, especially allometric scaling, spatial allometric scaling, and dynamic model-based scaling approaches. Also, students will learn the newest advances of the studies and applications of scale issues in current international ecology. The course will be a mixture of directed readings, classroom and after-class discussion, student’s presentations and lectures. Students will gain scores from their class performance, classroom discussion, oral presentation and written reports. |
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(1) WU J., JONES K.B., LI H., LOUCKS O.L. eds. 2006. Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer.
(2) BROWN, J.H., WEST G.B., eds. 2000. Scaling in Biology. Oxford University Press, Oxford
(3) SCHNEIDER D.C. 2009. Quantitative Ecology: Measurement, Models, and Scaling (2nd edition). Elsevier.
(4) GARDNER R.H., KEMP W.M., KENNEDY V.S., PETERSEN J.E. 2001. Scaling Relations in Experimental Ecology. New York: Columbia University Press.
(5) BIERKENS M.F.P., FINKE P.A., de Willigen P. 2000. Upscalign and Downscaling Methods for Environmental Research. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.
(6) TURNER M.G., GARDNER R.H., eds. 1991. Quantitative Methods in Landscape Ecology: The Analysis and Interpretation of Landscape Heterogeneity. New York: Springer-Verlag.
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