lök229 - Soil Ecology and Soil Landscapes (Complete module description)

The objectives of the module:

- to learn the field and laboratory methods of soil investigation in relation to the scientific objectives;

- to analyse the field and laboratory data and to apply modern statistical methods;

- to learn the soil evaluation on the basis of field and laboratory data

-  to apply the field and laboratory data for the landscape analyse;

- to analyse ecological processes in the soil-plant-system;

- to analyse the ecological interrelation within an landscape;

- to work on scientific questions on your own;

- to communicate in team to solve a problem.

Field exercises: soil inverstigation in the context of landscape and soil simpling in relation to a focus of study; humus form as indication a dynamics of the ecosystem

Laboratory exercises: Analytical procedures for soil characterization in relation to a focus of study, calculation of laboratory data.

Seminar: Analyse the field and laboratory data; apply modern statistical methods; critical discussion of the field and laboratory data, evaluation of landscape and ecosystem using the field and laboratory data.

Scheffer & Schachtschabel (2018): Lehrbuch der Bodenkunde, Spektrum-Verlag.

AD-HOC-AG Bodenkunde (2005): Bodenkundliche Kartieranleitung. Schweizerbartsche Verlagsbuchhandlung.

Schlichting, Blume, Stahr (1995); Bodenkundliches Praktikum, Blackwell.

NIBIS Kartenserver

see StudIP.

2 hrs/w exercise SoSe
3 hrs/w exercise WiSe
1 hrs/w seminar Wise

associated with the following modules:

lök120: Geoecological Processes

lök280/lök285: Special Vegetation Ecology