NGEN03 - Global
Ecosystem Dynamics HT 2011
updated: 17th
January 2012
Course leader: Martin Sykes 046 2229298
3rd Floor Geocentrum 2 Sölvegatan 12
Email: Martin.Sykes@nateko.lu.se
1. Resit
examination Friday 3rd February 2012 10.15-13.15 Hydrosfären.
Register with Eva Kovacs.
2. Course assessment form completed and returned by Friday 20th
January 2012
3. Student
Projects (available for a few days)
Bachy & Pirvulescu and appendix
Last year’s examination here
Rules
for lab use and plagiarism
Those, who have not studied at our department before,
please, make yourself familiar with the lab rules
and the rules concerning plagiarism.
Note all practicals,
exercises, field trips, group presentations, hand-ins
etc. are compulsory to be able to pass the course.
In addition the final
examination must be past with a mark of at least 50%.
RECOMMENDED BACKGROUND COURSE LITERATURE (not compulsory)
Neil Roberts. The Holocene - an Environmental History. 1998. Wiley-Blackwell
Lowe, Harris & Ashton Ecological Genetics. 2004. Blackwell
Kump, L.R. et al. The Earth System. 2003. Prentice Hall
Ruddiman, W.F. Earth's climate: past and future. 2007 W.H. Freeman and Company
IPCC fourth assessment report - the physical science basis. Chapter 6 and 7. 2007 (www.ipcc.ch)
Articles from scientific journals will be handed out during the course.
Lectures 2011
Past
climates
Past climates background reading
Past climates exercise and
hand in
Rundgren
terrestrial biosphere
Bradshaw Introductory
bridging lecture
Bradshaw long
term vegetation dynamics
Bradshaw students Canada fires
Bradshaw students Sweden fires
Bradshaw
students European Russia
Bradshaw
students North Patagonia
Schurgers
- Exercise 2: AR4/IPCC, section 7.4
http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-chapter7.pdf
- Exercise 2: Levis et al.
(2010)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/wcc.83
- Exercise 3: Scheffer et al. (2009)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2005GL025044
Schurgers
Earth System Modelling
Schurgers
ESM answers exercise 3