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Dr Rob Wiltshire (Coordinator) Prof Jim Reid, Mr Paddy Dalton
This unit is essential for students interested in botany, ecology and land management of both wilderness and production forestry areas.
Students are exposed to the diversity of plants found in environments that range from near sea level to alpine, from rich basalt soils to ancient weathered quartzite, and from sites ravaged by clearfelling and burning to 4,000-year-old cool, temperate rainforest, all in close proximity to the Mt Field National Park and Southwest World Heritage Area.
The first part of the course is field-based, with informal lectures and practical exercises conducted in the Mt Field National Park and SW Tasmania over 5 days, with some plant identification work at night. There is a quite strenuous walk along the Tarn Shelf, over Newdegate Pass and back along the Rodway Range. Students that are not physically fit must seek the advice of the course coordinator. This part of the course is based at the Giants' Table, Maydena.
The second part of the course introduces demographic techniques, conservation strategies and practice, and examines applied ecological practice in forestry harvesting methods in wet sclerophyll forest in the long-term monitoring site at Warra in two day excursions from the Sandy Bay campus.
Assessment is by: a field test (50%) on the last day of the course, assessing plant identification ability and an understanding of the ecological processes shaping the vegetation; two reports based on data collected in the field (40%); and a group plant collection (10%).
FOR FURTHER DETAILS:
Follow the link below, or contact Dr Rob Wiltshire or the School of Plant Science on (03) 6226 2603
Click here to view the Field Botany website.
Click here to view handbook entry for this unit. |
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