General information
Aim of the course: introduction into food web analysis using the example of the Wadden Sea Ecosystem. Demonstration of the necessary steps of food web description: sampling and habitat analysis as well as basics of the ecological network analysis will be communicated by explaining and exercising simple modelling.
Target audience: advanced students, Bachelor,-Master- and PhD students with ecologically focused programme of study. Although the course is focusing on a marine ecosystem, interested students of terrestrial and limnic ecology as well as advanced disciplines are welcome.
Agenda:
Tuesday: 19.07.2016
Arrival
Wednesday: 20.07.2016 NW: 8:31/21:01
09:00- 10:00 General introduction into food web analysis
10:00- 10:30 Primary producers of the Wadden Sea
10:30- 11:15 Introduction into the course programme and building of teams (2-3 persons)
11:15- 12:30 Lunch break
12:30- 14:00 Primary producers and incubation of samples
14:00- 15:00 After sample procedures /incubation techniques/biomass sampling/chlorophyll
15:00- 17:00 Practical exercises to measure primary production/end of measurements
17:00- 18:00 Evaluating and presenting results
Thursday: 21.07.2016 NW: 9:13/21:43
09:00- 12:00 Predators of the Wadden Sea: Excursion on board of RV MYA II
12:00- 13:00 Lunch break
13:00- 16:00 Analysing, evaluating and presenting results from fishing and dredging
16:00- 17:00 Consumers of the Wadden Sea/ sampling techniques
Friday: 22.07.2016 NW:9:53/22:24
09:00- 12:00 Field trip with benthic sampling
12:00- 13:00 Lunch break
13:00- 16:00
16:00- 18:00 Analysing samples (Biomass of macrobenthos), evaluating and presenting results
Saturday: 23.07.2016 NW: 10:21/23:03
9:00- 12:00 Ornithological tour into Königshafen /bird predation at certain communities
12:00- 14:00 Lunch break
14:00- 15:30 What kind of data are required to construct a quantitative food web?
15:30- 16:00 The Wadden Sea Ecosystem
16:00- 18:00 Literature and methodology reviews, methods of system analysis and introduction to Ecological Network analysis (ENA), explaining the data base of the food web of the Sylt-Rømø Bight
Sunday: 24.07.2016 NW:11:11/23:47
free
Monday: 25.07.2016 NW:11:56/-
09:00 - 12:00 Statistical methods for modelling benthos communities
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 Models of North Sea Benthos / applications, exercises and discussion
Tuesday: 26.07.2016 NW: 0:35/12:44
09:00 - 10:30 Input Output Analysis
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45- 12:00 Trophic Analysis
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch:
14:00 - 15:00 Cycle Analysis
15:00 - 16:00 Total System Properties
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00 Software and assistant programmes, books and literature
Wednesday 27.07.2016 NW:1:24/13:34
9:00- 10:00 Benthic communities and their role for energy flow and food web of the intertidal system of the Sylt-Rømø Bight
10:00- 12:00 Practical Exercises with food webs using network analysis
12:00- 14:00 Lunch
14:00- 18:00 Continuing practical exercises with own data and models
Thursday 28.07.2016 NW:2:12/14:29
09:00- 12:00 Discussion of homework: How can we indicate stability of ecosystems? Departure from 12:00°° onwards
Content
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Venue
Wattenmeerstation Sylt, Germany
Wattenmeerstation Sylt, Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung, Hafenstrasse 43, 25992 List auf Sylt
Application
Click here to apply: http://www.awi.de/de/forschung/fachbereiche/biowissenschaften/oekologie_der_kues...
Cost:
<p><u>Accommodation:</u> the course is a full-time course and participants are accommodated in one of the guest houses of our institute in List at Sylt (18 Euro per day). For details please ask Dr. Harald Asmus.</p>
Application Procedure:
For registration and further information, please contact Dr. Harald Asmus. Telefon: 04651/956 4218; Fax 04651/ 956 200; email: Harald.Asmus@awi.de
Qualification
Aim of the course: introduction into food web analysis using the example of the Wadden Sea Ecosystem. Demonstration of the necessary steps of food web description: sampling and habitat analysis as well as basics of the ecological network analysis will be communicated by explaining and exercising simple modelling.
Target audience: advanced students, Bachelor,-Master- and PhD students with ecologically focused programme of study. Although the course is focusing on a marine ecosystem, interested students of terrestrial and limnic ecology as well as advanced disciplines are welcome.
Agenda:
Tuesday: 19.07.2016
Arrival
Wednesday: 20.07.2016 NW: 8:31/21:01
09:00- 10:00 General introduction into food web analysis
10:00- 10:30 Primary producers of the Wadden Sea
10:30- 11:15 Introduction into the course programme and building of teams (2-3 persons)
11:15- 12:30 Lunch break
12:30- 14:00 Primary producers and incubation of samples
14:00- 15:00 After sample procedures /incubation techniques/biomass sampling/chlorophyll
15:00- 17:00 Practical exercises to measure primary production/end of measurements
17:00- 18:00 Evaluating and presenting results
Thursday: 21.07.2016 NW: 9:13/21:43
09:00- 12:00 Predators of the Wadden Sea: Excursion on board of RV MYA II
12:00- 13:00 Lunch break
13:00- 16:00 Analysing, evaluating and presenting results from fishing and dredging
16:00- 17:00 Consumers of the Wadden Sea/ sampling techniques
Friday: 22.07.2016 NW:9:53/22:24
09:00- 12:00 Field trip with benthic sampling
12:00- 13:00 Lunch break
13:00- 16:00
16:00- 18:00 Analysing samples (Biomass of macrobenthos), evaluating and presenting results
Saturday: 23.07.2016 NW: 10:21/23:03
9:00- 12:00 Ornithological tour into Königshafen /bird predation at certain communities
12:00- 14:00 Lunch break
14:00- 15:30 What kind of data are required to construct a quantitative food web?
15:30- 16:00 The Wadden Sea Ecosystem
16:00- 18:00 Literature and methodology reviews, methods of system analysis and introduction to Ecological Network analysis (ENA), explaining the data base of the food web of the Sylt-Rømø Bight
Sunday: 24.07.2016 NW:11:11/23:47
free
Monday: 25.07.2016 NW:11:56/-
09:00 - 12:00 Statistical methods for modelling benthos communities
12:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 Models of North Sea Benthos / applications, exercises and discussion
Tuesday: 26.07.2016 NW: 0:35/12:44
09:00 - 10:30 Input Output Analysis
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45- 12:00 Trophic Analysis
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch:
14:00 - 15:00 Cycle Analysis
15:00 - 16:00 Total System Properties
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00 Software and assistant programmes, books and literature
Wednesday 27.07.2016 NW:1:24/13:34
9:00- 10:00 Benthic communities and their role for energy flow and food web of the intertidal system of the Sylt-Rømø Bight
10:00- 12:00 Practical Exercises with food webs using network analysis
12:00- 14:00 Lunch
14:00- 18:00 Continuing practical exercises with own data and models
Thursday 28.07.2016 NW:2:12/14:29
09:00- 12:00 Discussion of homework: How can we indicate stability of ecosystems? Departure from 12:00°° onwards
For registration and further information, please contact Dr. Harald Asmus. Telefon: 04651/956 4218; Fax 04651/ 956 200; email: Harald.Asmus@awi.de
