IMPRS-gBGC core course: Terrestrial Biosphere
Category: Core course
Credits: 0.2 per course day
This course will focus on processes important in biosphere-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases as well as methods used to scale these exchange processes to understand their importance in global biogeochemical cycles.
The emphasis will be on plants since soil science is covered in a separate course.
If you are an doctoral researcher with limited background knowledge in biology and ecology, this is the right course for you.
1. When
tbd 2022
2. Where
Am Planetarium 1: Lecture hall (ground floor of the Schleiden Institute)
Excursion: Meeting point at the entrance of the Jena Experiment
MPI-BGC: lecture hall and outside
3. Agenda from 2020 which will be developed further
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L = lecture, D = demonstration, P = practical, E = excursion
Day & slot | Type | Content | Who & where |
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tbd | Biodiversity and ecosystem functions & Ecophysiology I | ||
9:00 - 11:00 | L | Biodiversity | Christine Römermann Am Planetarium 1: Lecture hall, ground floor of the Schleiden Institute |
11:15 - 12:45 | E | Excursion to the Jena Experiment | Markus Lange Meeting point at the entrance of the Jena Experiment |
14:00 - 16:00 | L/D/P | Biodiversity & Ecophysiology | Christine Römermann and Dr. Solveig Franziska Bucher / Am Planetarium 1: Lecture hall |
tbd | Ecophysiology II | ||
09:00 - 13:00 | L | Carbon Metabolism, water in plants, transport processes, nutrients and interactions | Henrik Hartmann MPI-BGC lecture hall |
13:00 - 17:00 | D/P | Hands on part | Henrik Hartmann MPI-BGC Outside / basement |
tbd | Plant traits and modeling plant/soil | ||
09:00 -12:30 | L | Biogeochemical cycles in general & models of BGC cycles | Jens Kattge MPI-BGC lecture hall |
tbd | Plants in Landscapes & large scale biodiversity / biogeography | Webinar | |
09:00 - 10:30 | L | Pattern and process at landscape scales | Axel Kleidon |
11:00 - 12:30 | L | Large scale biodiversity and biogeography | Axel Kleidon |
14:00 - 16:00 | L | Lab exercise - geophysical modelling | Axel Kleidon |
tbd | Introduction | Webinar | |
14:00 - 15:30 | L | Hierarchical theory and levels of organization of biological systems | |
tbd | Plant traits and modeling plant/soil | Webinar | |
11:00 - 12:30 | L | Mathematical representation of ecosystem models | |
14:00 - 17:00 | P/D | Building a simple biogeochemical model in 3 steps of abstraction (visual representation, mathematical representation, working model) | |
14:00 - 17:00 | P/D | Building a simple biogeochemical model in 3 steps of abstraction (visual representation, mathematical representation, working model) |