Empirical research in biogeography requires field data on species’ assemblages, distributions, or populations. In this module, students learn techniques and tools to design and implement a field research campaign that considers statistical sampling design, sampling effort, and costs. Students will get acquainted with a wide range of methods to collect primary ecological field data, ranging from simple to more advanced techniques, and covering a wide range of taxa, and that are applicable to terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Students will further train in specific methods in an intensive course in the field. There, students will conduct research projects that they design prior to the field trip. Course participants will also deepen their analytical skills in primary data analyses to answer research questions and test hypothesis; document their findings; and critically reflect on them in the context of the primary literature. Topics covered during this course include:
The five-day field excursion to Linde Research station in Brandenburg will take place from the 3rd to 7th of June. It will serve to deepen methods introduced in the seminar, and to gather the necessary data and implement the associated sampling design for two to three experiments (e.g., assessing species’ assemblages along gradients of land use intensity or forest fragmentation). Students will get additional hands-on experience on data acquisition techniques (e.g. arthropod trapping, camera trapping) and in identifying the species they capture.
The course will preferably be held in English.
Project report summarizing main method and findings, ca. 2500–3000 words.
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