Restoration Ecology
ENS 361 (Offering: 2003)

Description

This is an advanced level, competency based course in restoration ecology within the environmental science program. It builds on the foundations laid in Australian Vegetationand explores the biotic and ecological aspects restoration. The course emphasises landscape through to site specific or species specific approaches to restoration. Students are introduced to elements of ecology that enable them to evaluate both healthy and degraded systems and the ecological theories relevant to restoration; including disturbance and patch dynamics, successional processes, gap dynamics and weed invasion. Students develop further their understanding of different community types as related to their degradation and restoration including riparian zones, rainforests, coastal vegetation and wetlands processes and increase their field skills in plant identification including weeds. The course focuses on the use of biotic approaches to water and soil restoration including the use of constructed wetlands and bioremediation. Students investigate site assessment, evaluation and monitoring approaches and potential restoration strategies, through lectures, participation in practical examples and assignment projects.

Major(s)/Minors(s): Biodiversity and Ecology (major), Environmental Management (major), Enviromental Restoration (minor)

Usual Semester of offer: Semester 1

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