Ecology & Biostatistics

Paper Code: 
ZOL-602
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
10.00
  • 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
  • Intraspecific & interspecific relationships
  • Niche concept
  • Predation & parasitism- Concept, Host- parasite relationship
  • Communities – Succession, Biome, Ecotone, Edge effect
10.00
  • 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
  • Introduction, scope and application of Biostatistics
  • Frequency distribution

Graphical presentation of data

10.00
  • Mean. mode, median and their significance
  • Standard deviation ,variance and coefficient of variance
Essential Readings: 
  • Biostatistics; Gupta, S.P.;Sultan Chand &Co.
  • Fundamentals of ecology; Odum, E.P.; W.B.Saunders, New Delhi.
  • Environmental Biology; Verma P.S. & Agarwal U.K; S. Chand &Co. NewDelhi
  • Environmental science-S.C. Santra, New Central Book Agency.
  • Soil and the Environment: An introduction Alanwild, Cambridge press.
  • 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.

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