Academic Year/course:
2023/24
419 - Degree in Geography and Land Management
28310 - Biogeography
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
28310 - Biogeography
Faculty / School:
103 - Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
Degree:
419 - Degree in Geography and Land Management
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
2
Semester:
First semester
Subject type:
Compulsory
Module:
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1. General information
The goals of the subject are to understand and assimilate the most important and general concepts, techniques and methods of biogeography, especially the factors and processes that characterize and explain the distribution of living beings.
These approaches and objectives are aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals:
* Goal 12: Responsible Production and Consumption
* Goal 13: Climate Action
* Goal 15: Life of Terrestrial Ecosystems.
Itis a basic and essential subject that prepares to understand, manage and elaborate biogeographic information that is of interest in itself and is a fundamental component of the study of the natural environment and land management. The acquisition of various competences is explained by the diversity of techniques: field work, laboratoryanalysis , remote sensing, cartography.
2. Learning results
1. Identify, explain, argue and apply the general contents and essential concepts of Biogeography.
2. Consistently analyze the relationships between living things and the factors involved in their distribution
3. Identify, interpret and analyze individuals, structures and dynamics shown by living beings.
4. Analyze and represent biogeographic realities at different scales and in diverse environments
5. Correctly apply knowledge related to thematic cartography.
6. Acquire basic knowledge in the use of species determination and identification techniques.
3. Syllabus
1. Introduction to Biogeography (Concept, divisions, main ideas). Basic concepts (ecology, biology, bioclimatology...).
2. Factors and processes that affect living beings (geographical, biological, dynamics).
3. Distribution of living beings: paleobiogeography and chorology.
4. Biogeographic regions and Biomes of the world.
5. Cartographic methods in biogeography and introduction to thematic cartography applied in biogeography (photointerpretation, remote sensing).
6. Methods of determination of living beings. Introduction to terrestrial vertebrate and invertebrate censuses.
4. Academic activities
The learning process combines the following academic activities:
1: Theoretical sessions: In the form of master classes developed through a participative dynamic.
2: Classroom practices.
3: Laboratory practices: Photo-interpretation, analysis of thematic maps, introduction to taxonomic techniques and methodsand handling of determination and identification keys.
4: Field work: Analysis of environmental factors in the distribution of vegetation on the ground (Transect from the Ebro Depression to the Iberian System or the Pyrenees).
6: Personal study.
7: Performance of evaluation tests.
5. Assessment system
a) Continuous assessment system
- Completion of the practical work of topics 1 to 6 individually and/or in small groups (75% of the grade).
-Written test: Completion of an individual written questionnaire on the conceptual part of the topics of the program, where demonstrates the understanding of the concepts and the ability to relate them and draw conclusions. (25% of grade). Assessment criteria: Evaluation based on the development and structuring of the contents, as well as on the formal presentation of the contents and public exposition, if applicable. Consideration of active participation in academic activities classroom, laboratory and field.
Global assessment test
- Delivery of bibliographic sources -topic 1-and biogeographic cartography -topics 5 and 6- (41 % of grade).
- Written test: Completion of an individual written questionnaire on the conceptual part of the topics of the program, where demonstrates the understanding of the fundamental concepts and the ability to relate them and draw conclusions (59 % of grade).
Evaluation criteria. Correction of the proposed evaluation tests, taking into account both the development and structuring of contents, as well as their formal presentation.
II. Second call
Global assessment test