IMPRS course 'Terrestrial biosphere'
- Start: Sep 16, 2022
- End: Nov 1, 2022
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.
Category: Core course
Credits: 0.2 per course day
If you are an doctoral researcher with limited background knowledge in biology and ecology, this is the right course for you.
1. When
September 16 - October 14, 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, B0.002 and outside
3. Agenda from 2020 which will be developed further
Legend
L = lecture, D = demonstration, P = practical, E = excursion
Sept 16 - Introduction (L)
Richard Nair
9:00 - 10:30
Hierarchical theory and levels of organization of biological systems
- Intro to ecophysiology
- Ecosystem and Biospheric levels of organization
MPI-BGC
lecture hall or B0.002
Sept 21 - Biodiversity and ecosystem
functions & Ecophysiology I
Christine Römermann
and Solveig Franziska
Bucher
9:00 - 11:00 Biodiversity (L)
- What is biodiversity?
- Changes and threat on biodiversity
- Consequences of biodiversity loss
- Biodiversity experiments
- Biodiversity and ecosystem processes
Am Planetarium 1: Lecture hall, ground floor of the Schleiden Institute
11:15 - 12:45 Excursion to the Jena Experiment (E)
Markus Lange
Meeting
point at the entrance of the Jena Experiment
14:00 - 16:00 Biodiversity & Ecophysiology (L/D/P)
Am
Planetarium 1: lecture hall
Sept 22 - Plant traits and modeling
plant/soil
Jens Kattge
09:00 -12:30 Biogeochemical cycles in general & models of BGC cycles (L)
Traits as characteristics of plants (including their relevance for
determining soil properties)
MPI-BGC
lecture hall or B0.002
Sept 30 - Dendrochronology
David Herrera
09:00 - 12:00 Introduction to dendrochronology (L)
MPI-BGC
lecture hall or B0.002
13:00 - 15:00 Hands-on (P)
Oct 5 - Ecophysiology II
Henrik Hartmann
09:00 - 13:00 Carbon Metabolism, water in plants, transport processes, nutrients and
interactions (L)
Plant carbon and water relations in a changing world. Implications for global
forest ecosystems.
MPI-BGC
lecture hall or B0.002
13:00 - 17:00 Hands on part (D/P)
MPI-BGC
outside / basement
Oct 6 - From plants to planet: The
global biosphere
Axel Kleidon
09:00 - 10:45
Population dynamics and resources (L, D, P )
MPI-BGC
lecture hall or B0.002
11:00 - 12:45
Dynamics of the biosphere (L)
Nov 1 - Introduction to global biosphere modelling
Ana Bastos
9:30 - 11:00 Mathematical representation of ecosystem models (L)
MPI-BGC lecture hall or B0.002
11:30 - 12:30 Building a simple biogeochemical model in 3 steps of abstraction (visual
representation, mathematical representation, working model) (P/D)
for this part, please bring a laptop with a
current version of python and spyder or another python IDE
installed. Ideally you should have some basic programming knowledge, but we
will build the model step by step so that everyone can follow.
for this part, please bring a laptop with a current version of python and spyder or another python IDE installed. Ideally you should have some basic programming knowledge, but we will build the model step by step so that everyone can follow.
4. Registration
>> Register here by August 31, 2022.