3744.06 - Field course: Aquatic Ecology

3744.06

Field course: Aquatic Ecology

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To learn how to collect biological and chemical samples in the field and how to analyse the samples. To learn how to identify the most common animal- and plant species in freshwater and the sea and studies of environmental influences on composition, distribution and abundance.

One day will focus on rivers. River fauna will be collected and identified. Changes in the fauna through the river and factors causing these changes will be studied. Two days will focus on benthic flora and fauna in a Faroese fjord. Algae and fauna are collected from the littoral and sublittoral zone. Environmental influences on distribution and abundance will be studied. In the last three days nutrients, oxygen, phyto- and zooplankton and physical environmental parameters in a Faroese fjord will be studied. An ecological analysis of plankton and abiotic environmental parameters that are affecting plankton distribution, abundance and production will be carried out. Teachers Eilif Gaard, University of the Faroes/Faroese Fisheries Laboratory (Charge) Jan Sørensen, Kaldbak Marine Biological Laboratory Eyðfinn Magnussen, University of the Faroes

6 days field- and laboratory work and report writing.

Adoption of report.

Eilif Gaard