| Course title | |||||
| 自由課題実験Ⅰ [Innovative Design Experiment Ⅰ] | |||||
| Course category | Requirement | Credit | 0.5 | ||
| Department | Year | ～ | Semester | Spring | |
| Course type | Spring | Course code | 96314 | ||
| Instructor(s) | |||||
| 宇野 良子 [UNO Ryoko] | |||||
| Facility affiliation | Organization for the Advancement of Education and Global Learning | Office | Email address | ||
| Course description |
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11, 9, 2023 (Thu) 10:00 - (Zoom - online) A forest ecosystem is a terrestrial unit of living organisms (plants, animals, and microorganisms), all interacting among themselves and with the environment (soil, climate, water and light) in which they live. However, extensive burning of fossil fuels has increased atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases well beyond historical levels. Such changes have accompanied increased global temperatures, suggesting a substantively altered world climate. Moreover, they are depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, acid rain or long-range trans-boundary air pollution, and so on. The negative impacts of global environment changes on the forest ecosystem, such as rising temperatures, increasing atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, methane and ozone, and an increase in natural disasters, are much more noticeable in many parts on the world. This lecture focuses primarily on the effects of global environmental changes on the forest ecosystem. |
| Expected Learning |
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Understand the following items ・Explain the mechanism of environmental change on a global scale. ・Explain the effects of microclimate changes on trees. ・Explain the functions and roles of forest ecosystems. Corresponding criteria in the Diploma Policy: See the Curriculum maps. (https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/) |
| Course schedule |
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Class contents are mainly about the follwing items. ・Types, composition, distribution, and roles of forests ・Mechanism of global environmental change ・Response of plants to environmental changes ・The role of forest ecosystems in environmental change |
| Prerequisites |
| Required Text(s) and Materials |
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Handouts will be provided in class. The documents are uploaded in the “classroom”. |
| References |
| To be announced in the lectures. |
| Assessment/Grading |
| Students submit the report on the class contents. |
| Message from instructor(s) |
| I think it is essential to discuss resource conservation together with environmental issues. For a comprehensive understanding, let's start with an understanding of the natural environment, though it may seem like a detour. |
| Course keywords |
| plant physiology, climate changes, forest, photosynthesis, forest ecosystem |
| Office hours |
| Contact me by Email first. email address: choids@cc.tuat.ac.jp |
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| Lecture Language |
| Japanese |
| Language Subject |
| Last update |
| 2/6/2023 2:58:37 PM |