UNIT I:
Population Ecology: Population regulation, Density dependent and Independent regulation:
Role of different factors, Genecology-Ecads, Ecotypes, concept of niche etc. Human population
dynamics and prediction. [15]
UNIT IV:
Statistical thinking in Ecology:
Ecosystems and scale, theory, knowledge and research design, Ecological study unit, Inference
methods, Experimental versus observation methods in ecology, Evidence and hypothesis testing,
formulating right problem, Publish or Perish. [15]
ECOLOGY PAPER XII: PRACTICAL COURSE II (60)
UNIT V:
1. Study of litter production.
2. Determination of similarity index and association index.
3. Study of stratification and physiognomy.
4. Study of population dynamics.
5. Determination of IVI.
6. Study of α, β diversity.
UNIT VI:
1. Study of vegetation by transect method.
2. Study of vegetation bisects.
3. Measurement of biomass production.
4-5. Biomass profile of the plant community.
6. Visit to local protected or conserved area.
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- Teacher: varsha jadhav Botany