Ecology & Biostatistics

Paper Code: 
ZOL-602
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Objectives

The course objectives to provide students with a basic understanding of:

  1. Environment and its biotic, abiotic factors
  2. Biogeochemical cycles
  3. Characteristics of Population and Community
  4. Ecosystem: Concepts of food chain, food web. trophic structure
  5. Ecological succession
  6. Major biomes of the world
  7. scope and application of Biostatistics and Use of data analysis methods
  8. Use of data analysis methods including graphing and statistical analysis.

 

Learning outcomes-

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

 

1.         Describe Environment and its biotic, abiotic factors

2.         Describe the Biogeochemical cycles

3.         Understand the Characteristics of Population and Community

4.         Describe concepts of Ecosystem

5.         Describe the Types and Patterns of Ecological succession

6.         Understand the Major biomes of the world

7.         Describe the scope and application of Biostatistics and Use of data analysis methods

10.00
Unit I: 
UNIT I
  • Autecology & Synecology
  • Abiotic Factors of Environment—Temperature, light , Pressure
  • Substratum-Soil as a substratum
  • Biogeochemical cycles-Nitrogen, Carbon, Water & Sulphur

Populations- Characteristics, Regulation of densities, growth curves

8.00
Unit II: 
UNIT II

·         Intraspecific & interspecific relationships

·         Niche concept

·         Predation & parasitism- Concept, Host- parasite relationship

Communities – Succession, Biome, Ecotone, Edge effect

10.00
Unit III: 
UNIT III
  • Ecosystem- Components of ecosystem, energy flow, ecological pyramids, Food chain, Food web
  • Habitat Ecology-Aquatic, Marine, Terrestrial-Desert, Forest
  • Wildlife management, conservation of renewable resources

Environmental pollution – Air & water pollutants, Global warming, Pollution control strategies

7.00
Unit IV: 
UNIT IV
  • Introduction, scope and application of Biostatistics
  • Frequency distribution

Graphical presentation of data (bar diagram, frequency polygon, histogram, pie chart)

10.00
Unit V: 
UNIT V
  • Mean. mode, median and their significance
  • Standard deviation ,variance and coefficient of variance
Essential Readings: 
  • P.D. Sharma, Ecology & Environment Rastogi Publications.
  • Biostatistics; Gupta, S.P.;Sultan Chand &Co.
References: 
  • Fundamentals of ecology; Odum, E.P.; W.B.Saunders, New Delhi.
  • Ecology. Gary Miller, Robert, E. Riclefs. W.H. Freeman, USA.
  • Elements of Ecology, 5 Ed Robert Leo Smith et al. Harper Collins.
  • Environmental Biology (Cambridge Advanced Sciences) Michael Reiss.
  • Ladern,D. Modelling in Behavioural Ecology.
  • The Encyclopedia of Animal Ecology, P.D. Moore (Ed), Equinox (Oxford) Ltd., England.
  • Ecology and Field Biology, Robert L Smith, Harper CollinsPub, New York.
  • Textbook of Ecology, G.T. Miller and S. Spoolman, Brookes Cole, England.
  • Bencroft, H. Introduction to Biostatistics Harper and Row. New York, 1957.
  • Bailey, N.T.J. Statistical method in Biology Low Priced Text Book English Language Society, London, 1959.
  • Dunn. O J., Basic Statistics: A Primer for the biomedical science John Wiley & Sons. Inc. New York, 1964.


 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020
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