DeutschGEO.00392 – Bodengeographie
Lecturer(s):
Dr. Michael Zierdt
Mo.: 09:15-10:00
Vorlesung
Learning goals:
- Development of basic, theoretical knowledge of physical geography and geoecology
- Ability for geo-ecological and geosystemic analysis and analysis of geographic and relevant neighbouring disciplines (especially geoscientific) issues
- Ability to reciprocally relate physical-geographical theory and empiricism
- Command of physical-geographical terminology in appropriate broadness and differentiation
- Ability to adequately represent physical-geographical facts
Curriculum:
- Lectures: Characteristics of the geocomponents climate, water, relief and soil (presentation of the global distribution, regional and location characteristics). Interactions between the geocomponents. Individual emphases are:
- variables and processes of the climate
- Manifestations and climate classification
- hydrologic cycle and balance
- Distribution of water on the earth
- Processes of shaping the earth surface and their distribution
- pedogenesis – distribution and classification
- Interactions of geocomponents, landscape development and landscape management
- Geoecology:
- ecosystem model
- Ecology concept
- landscape development
- landscape balance
- ecological equilibrium
- Material cycles and energy flows
- anthropogenic changes in the landscape structure and landscape budget
- Seminar:
- Introduction to Physiogeography and Geoecology as an empirical science, deepening and supplementing the content of the basic lectures
- Field exercise: The material of the lecture will be illustrated and discussed in detail in the context of a terrain exercise on the concrete terrain example
physical-geographical spatial analysis and landscape assessment - Vegetation geography