Principles of Ecology
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Pradip Kumar Prusty
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Course Name : Principles of Ecology
Code(Credit) : CUTM 1499
Course Objectives
• To Obtain knowledge about the Ecosystem and their functioning, so that they will be crusader of environmental sustainability
• To convey the principles of ecology
• To Provide examples from ecological studies
• To Illustrate the application of ecological principles to the management of ecosystems
Learning Outcomes
| COs | Course Outcomes | Mapping COs with POs
(High-3, Medium-2, Low-1) |
| CO1 | Describe the different components of ecosystem, the types of biogeochemical cycles and importance of energy as drivers of ecosystem | PO1-3, PO4-2, PO9-2 |
| CO2 | distinguish among allied scientific disciplines (environmental science, conservation biology, restoration ecology, and environmental engineering) and compare their purposes with that of ecology | PO1-3, PO4-2, PO9-2 |
| CO3 | describe the application of the scientific method to ecological experimentation. | PO1-3, PO2-2, PO9-3 |
Course Syllabus
Module I: Introduction to Ecology
History of ecology, Autecology and synecology, Levels of organization, Laws of limiting factors, Study of physical factors.
Assignment
Define Autecology and synecology
Assignment
State and explain Level of Organization
Practice
Study of life tables and plotting of survivorship curves of different types from the hypothetical/real data provided.
Module II: Population
Unitary and Modular populations Unique and group attributes of population: Density, nasality, mortality, life tables, fecundity tables, survivorship curves, age ratio, sex ratio, dispersal and dispersion. Exponential and logistic growth, equation and patterns, r and K strategies .
Assignment
Explain the density depedent and independent of an ecology
Assignment
Describe r and k strategy
Assignment
Explain Exponential and logistic growth
Assignment
Draw the survivorship curves of an ecology and give the suitable examples
Assignment
Define life tables fecundity tables of an ecology
Practice
Determination of population density in a natural community by quadrate method.
Module III: Population regulation
Population regulation - density-dependent and independent factors Population interactions, Gause’s Principle with laboratory and field examples, Lotka-Volterra equation for competition and Predation, functional and numerical Responses.
Assignment
Explain Gause’s Principle
Assignment<br />Describe the Lotka-Volterra equation for competition and Predation
Assignment
Define the Population regulation
Practice
Determination of population density in a hypothetical community by quadrate method
Module IV: Community
Community characteristics: Define the , dominance, diversity, abundance, vertical stratification, Ecotone and edge effect; Ecological succession with one Example, Theories pertaining to climax community.
Assignment
Define the Species diversityt
Assignment
Define the abundance and vertical stratification
Assignment
Describe the Ecological succession with one Example.
Assignment
Describe the theories pertaining to climax community
Practice
Study of an aquatic ecosystem: Phytoplankton of an ecology
Module V : Ecosystem
Types of ecosystems with one example in detail, Food chain: Detritus and Grazing food chains, Linear and Y-shaped food chains, Food web.
Assignment
Difference between DFC and GFC
Practice
Study of an aquatic ecosystem: zooplankton and its Measurement of area.
Module VI: Energy flow through the ecosystem
Energy flow through the ecosystem, Ecological pyramids and Ecological efficiencies.
Practice
Determination of pH of zooplankton of an ecology
Module VII : Nutrient Cycle
Nutrient and biogeochemical cycle with one example of Nitrogen cycle, Human modified ecosystem Applied Ecology: Ecology in Wildlife Conservation and Management
Practice
Determination of Dissolved Oxygen by (Winkler’s method),
Text Books
Odum, E.P., (2008). Fundamentals of Ecology. Indian Edition. Brooks/Cole
Reference Books:
Colinvaux, P. A. (1993). Ecology. II Edition. Wiley, John and Sons, Inc. Krebs, C. J. (2001). Ecology.
VI Edition. Benjamin Cummings.
Robert Leo Smith Ecology and field biology Harper and Row publisher Ricklefs, R.E., (2000).
Ecology. V Edition. Chiron
Session Plan
Session 1
Autecology and synecology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p1TpVJYTds
https://www.slideshare.net/raymondbaldonado35/introduction-to-ecology-67534612
Session 2
Level of organizations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-80Z5d6wkDQ
https://www.slideshare.net/amandayoung313/ecology-levels-of-organization
Session 3 (Assignment)
Autocology and Synocology
Session 5 (Assignment)
State and explain Level of Organization
Session 6(Practice 2 h)
Study of life tables and plotting of survivorship curves of different types from the hypothetical/real data provided.
Session 7
Unitary and Modular populations
https://www.slideshare.net/halalarahman/unitary-population
Session 8
population: Density nasality mortality
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5Z2k-TJ5Z0
https://www.slideshare.net/gobuktaragang/population-ecology
Session 9
Life tables of an ecology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W69Y3SMUoFE
http://www.afrc.uamont.edu/whited/Life%20tables,%20survivorship%20curves,%20and%20popuation%20growth.pdf
Session 12
Dispersal and dispersion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvbViFbjxfw
https://www.slideshare.net/ttsotetsi/population-ecology-32121442
Session 13
Exponential and logistic growth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemhtqZHnak
https://www.slideshare.net/NayanDagliya/exponential-and-logistics-growth-curve-environmental-science
Session 15 (Assignment)
Explain the density depedent and independent of an ecology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aX4sd0rCpk
Session 16 (Assignment)
Describe r and k strategy
Session 17 (Assignment)
Explain Exponential and logistic growth
https://www.slideshare.net/NayanDagliya/exponential-and-logistics-growth-curve-environmental-science
Session 18 (Practice 2h)
Determination of population density in a natural community by quadrate method.
Session 19 (Assignment)
Gause’s Principle with laboratory and field examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blR3VkC66cs
https://www.slideshare.net/umarmusa14/competition-power-point-75515763
Session 20
Lotka-Volterra equation for competition and Predation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aY6zYCuRWr0
https://www.slideshare.net/MDEKRAMUDDIN/lotka-volterra-model-of-competition
Session 21
Explain Gause’s Principles
https://www.slideshare.net/umarmusa14/competition-power-point-75515763
Session 22 (Assignment)
Describe the Lotka-Volterra equation for competition and Predation
https://www.slideshare.net/MDEKRAMUDDIN/lotka-volterra-model-of-competition
Session 23 (Assignment)
Describe the Lotka-Volterra equation for competition and Predation
https://www.slideshare.net/MDEKRAMUDDIN/lotka-volterra-model-of-competition
Session 24 (Assignment)
Define the Population Ecology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc7h-5sIqDU
Session 25 (Practice 2h )
Determination of population density in a hypothetical community by quadrate method
Session 25
Community characteristics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkTcxtcKKZA
https://www.slideshare.net/vidhyakalaivani29/community-ecology-72008893
Session 28
Abundance of an ecology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghhZClDRK_g
https://www.slideshare.net/ErikDDavenport/mutualism-species-abundance-and-diversity
Session 29
Vertical stratification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-FPIXo5l0
https://www.slideshare.net/vidhyakalaivani29/community-ecology-72008893
Session 30
Ecotone and edge effect of an ecology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YWAC1_31Tg
https://eco-intelligent.com/2016/12/15/ecotones-and-edges-explaining-abrupt-changes-in-ecosystems/
Session 31
Ecological succession with one Example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V49IovRSJDs
https://www.slideshare.net/nandapalit/ecological-succession-34231619
Session 32
Theories pertaining to climax community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZA5yfrzLV8
https://www.biologydiscussion.com/biotic-community/4-theories-of-the-climax-community-explained/4704
Session 33 (Assignment)
Define the Species diversity
<a href="https://www.slideshare.net/janszxkie/species-diversity-44970584" r
Session 34 (Assignment)
Define the abundance and vertical stratification
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j-FPIXo5l0
https://www.slideshare.net/raymondbaldonado35/ecosystem-structures
Session 35 (Assignment)
Describe the Ecological succession with one Example
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3i37iDiaec
https://www.slideshare.net/BharatLodha333/ecological-succession-48260138
Session 36 (Assignment)
Describe the theories pertaining to climax community
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZA5yfrzLV8
Session 37 (Practice 2h)
Study of an aquatic ecosystem: Phytoplankton of an ecology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR1Hr2wyMnc
https://www.slideshare.net/divyashivappa75/phytoplankton-26645854
Session 38
Types of ecosystems with one example in detail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUqHIlMfKs
https://www.slideshare.net/AkshayKumar409/types-of-ecosystem-53635402
Session 39
Detritus and Grazing food chains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3yRjM0JAs
https://www.slideshare.net/saksheebhaiswar/food-chainfood-web-and-ecological-pyramids
Session 40
Linear and Y-shaped food chains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqkAc16iNzE
https://www.slideshare.net/AnchalGarg8/energy-flow-by-using-energy-models-in-ecosystem
Session 41 (Assignment)
Difference between DFC and GFC
Session 42 (Practice 2h)
Study of an aquatic ecosystem: zooplankton and its Measurement of area.
Session 43
Energy flow through the ecosystem
Session 44
Ecological pyramids and Ecological efficiencies.
Session 45 (Practice 2h)
Determination of pH of zooplankton of an ecology
Session 46
Nutrient and biogeochemical cycle with one example of Nitrogen cycle
Session 47
Human modified ecosystem Applied Ecology
Session 48
Ecology in Wildlife Conservation and Management
Session 49 (Practice 2h)
Determination of Dissolved Oxygen by (Winkler’s method)
Session 50 (Assignment)
Describe the biogeochemical cycle
Session 51
Difference between ecological pyramid and ecological effiencece
Session 52
Explain the wild life conservation of an ecology
Case Studies
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