Rvier Ecology: Concepts and Applications U4620 (100-1)

Course schedule

Lectures for River Ecology: Concepts and Applications will be held at 2:20pm on Monday throughout the first semester. The lecture will take place in BSE Lecture Room 10 (農工十). The course schedule is given below.

Date	Lecture
09/12	University Holiday: Moon Festival
09/19	Introduction: Why study river ecology?
09/26	Human impacts on river systems.
10/03	Fluvial environment 1.
10/10	University Holiday: National Day
10/17	Fluvial environment 2.
10/24*	Group discussion 1.
10/31*	Mini-project 1.
11/07	Lotic community 1.
11/14	Lotic community 2.
11/21	Biological interactions I.
11/28	Biological interactions II.
12/05	River continuum concept I.
12/05	Group discussion 2.
12/12*	Mini-project 2.
12/19*	River continuum concept II.
12/26	Periodic and stochastic events in rivers.
01/02	Dam and flow regulation.
01/09*	Final examination.

Note: Schedule is subjected to change according to the class progress.

Assessment scheme

One 1-hour written examination (40%) and continuous assessment of coursework (60% weighting).

Comments to Prof. R.S.W. Yam

Dept. Bioenvironmental Systems Engineering

National Taiwan University

Last updated: 2011.12.01