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Field Botany (BOTA30006)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Summer Term
Overview
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This subject is structured around the fieldwork excursion in early February and covers the basic skills that are required to undertake a field-based botanical activity such as a flora survey or an environmental impact assessment, or to proceed to research in a field-based botanical discipline. Topics to be covered include:
- taxonomy of the Australian flora;
- field identification of major families and genera of plants;
- collection and preservation of plant specimens; mounting and cataloguing specimens; curatorial skills; nomenclature;
- techniques for description and classification of vegetation; structural types, floristic associations, measures of abundance (cover, density, basal area, biomass), sampling techniques (quadrats, line transects, plotless methods), sampling scale and species-area relationships, profile diagrams, life-form spectra;
- soils; and
- vegetation mapping.
Intended learning outcomes
At the end of this subject, students should have the skills for:
- identification, description and quantification of plants and plant communities in the field;
- collection, cataloguing and preserving plant specimens; and
- constructing a vegetation map.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
One of
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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BOTA20002 | Plant Biodiversity | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
BOTA20004 | Flora of Victoria | Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- three field project reports due at the end of the semester with the total equivalent to approximately 3000 words (60%);
- assessment of field activities during the subject with the total equivalent to approximately 200 words (20%);
- a examination after completion of the field trip, equivalent to approximately 1000 words (20%).
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Andrew Drinnan Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours This subject is offered full-time over two weeks. Total contact is 62 hours, comprising 36 hours fieldwork (one 7-day excursion), 8 hours lectures, 18 hours practical work Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 January 2019 to 4 February 2019 Last self-enrol date 6 December 2018 Census date 1 February 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 February 2019 Assessment period ends 15 February 2019 Summer Term contact information
Time commitment details
Estimated total time commitment of 170 hours
Additional delivery details
An enrolment quota of 36 students applies to this subject. For detailed information on the quota subject application process, enrolment deadlines and selection preferences, refer to the Faculty of Science website: http://science.unimelb.edu.au/students/course-planning-and-advice
This subject requires all students to actively and safely participate in laboratory and field activities. Students undertake field trip experiences that will require them to be physically capable of undertaking outdoor field work in remote locations. An additional fee of roughly $400 per student is required for the field trip
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
None
- Subject notes
This subject is available for science credit to students enrolled in the BSc (both pre-2008 and new degrees), BASc or a combined BSc course.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Major Plant Science Informal specialisation Science-credited subjects - new generation B-SCI Major Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Informal specialisation Selective subjects for B-BMED Major Forest Science Informal specialisation Botany Informal specialisation Botany Major Botany - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Quota limit applied - UoM students will be given preference over CAP applicants
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 22 March 2024