Course title
森林生態学   [Forest Ecology]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 2 
Department   Year 2  Semester 1st 
Course type 1st  Course code 01rn2021
Instructor(s)
戸田 浩人, 崔 東寿, 吉田 智弘, 小池 伸介   [TODA Hiroto, CHOI Dongsu, YOSHIDA Tomohiro, KOIKE Shinsuke]
Facility affiliation Faculty of Agriculture Office   Email address

Course description
Aim: The aims of this course are to understand scientifically and comprehensively the conditions of a forest ecosystem that consists of living parts (i.e. trees, mammals, insects, microorganisms etc.), non-living parts (environmental factors), and their interactions.
Summary: This course provides the topics of 1) the concept and characteristics of forest ecosystems, 2) material production and nutrient cycling, 3) living organisms that constitute forest ecosystems, and 4) the interactions between the biotic and abiotic factors in the systems, and thus resulting in developing a better judge of forest ecosystems.
Expected Learning
Criterion for achievement: To obtain the basic knowledge for sound growth of forests and for evaluation of soundness of them, by understanding the rules of forest ecosystems.
Corresponding criteria in the Diploma Policy: See the Curriculum maps.
(URL: https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/ )
Course schedule
1. Outline of forest ecology: Aims and standard, Linkage between forest ecology and the associated course.
2. The concept and characteristics of Forest ecosystems: What is the Forest ecosystems?
3. Production in forest ecosystems: Environment and competition
4. Nutrient cycling in forest ecosystems: function of soil and microbes
5. Evolution and physiological ecology of trees
6. Symbiosis of trees with fungi and microorganisms
7. Reaction of trees corresponding to environments
8. Climate changes and soundness of forest ecosystem
9. The characteristics of mammals and birds in forest ecosystems
10. The function of forest as habitat for animals
11. The function of animals in forest ecosystems
12. The characteristics of insects and soil fauna in forest ecosystems
13. The function of insects and soil fauna in forest ecosystems
14. Research topics of insects and soil fauna in forest ecosystems
15. Returning reports, explaining the assignment and Q & A
(It is random order partly.)
Prerequisites
Associated course: Ecology, Forest Environment, Forest Dendrology, Silviculture, Sustainable Forest Management, Practice on Forest Dendrology, Practice on Silviculture, Experiments and Practice on Forest Soil,Practice on Forest Health and Arboriculture
In addition to 30 hours that students spend in the class, students are recommended to prepare for and revise the lectures, spending the standard amount of time as specified by the University and using the lecture handouts as well as the references specified below. We assign preparations for lessons every class to develop an understanding of topics of our course.
Required Text(s) and Materials
We provide a handout accordingly.
References
Please see the syllabus in Japanese version.
Assessment/Grading
Evaluating the submitted four reports of 1) Material production, nutrient cycling and microbes, 2) Trees and fungi, 3) Mammals, 4) Insects and soil fauna, in forest ecosystems: the each score accounts for 25% of the total scores. We do not evaluate the scores of a person who attends less than 70% of this course.
The past results
2021 S:3%, A:52%, B:20%, C:7%, D:18%
2020 S:3%, A:49%, B:36%, C:8%, D:4%
2019 S:3%, A:44%, B:38%, C:9%, D:6%
Message from instructor(s)
We comprehensively teach the basic topics of forest ecology. We welcome your questions about the topics of this course. When you do not understand a content of our lecture, you first look it up in the textbooks and references. If you still do not understand, please ask us directly or with a comment card or by email.
Course keywords
Material production and nutrient cycling, Trees, Mammals, Insects and soil invertebrates, Microorganisms
Office hours
Please make an appointment by email.
Remarks 1
We will show a detailed class schedule and issues of preparations for lessons by the first class.
Remarks 2
Information of the changes such as class schedules by covid-19, please confirm it in the Google Classroom of this subject.
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
1/28/2022 12:03:51 PM