Biodiversity, Biological and Ecological Evolution

lsinc1233  2024-2025  Charleroi

Biodiversity, Biological and Ecological Evolution
5.00 credits
30.0 h + 30.0 h
Q2

  This learning unit is not open to incoming exchange students!

Teacher(s)
Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Main themes
  1. Biodiversity and phylogenies: nature, classification principles and analysis techniques
  2. The mechanisms of evolution: the species and the mechanisms behind their emergence
  3. The adaptation of organisms to their environment: nature, origin and mechanisms
  4. Population ecology: life cycles, demography, migration and dispersal, life history, impact of intraspecific competition on populations
  5. Community ecology: types of interactions between species; interspecific competition and community structure, prey-predator relationships
  6. Biosphere: the biomes of the terrestrial globe, Walloon ecosystems, human impact on the biosphere
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

At the end of this teaching unit, the student is able to:
- take stock of the diversity of living organisms
- explain the origin of this diversity in the light of the theory of evolution
- understand how organisms interact with each other
- understand how organisms adapt to their environment and to variations in the physico-chemical characteristics of their environment.
- understand how populations of organisms evolve
- understand the impact of human activities on the biosphere.
 
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Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Additional module in life sciences and health for computer scientists