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light, water and nutrition. Diurnal and Summative Assessment: 40%
seasonal variations and cycles.
Types and characteristics of tropical
forests. Diversity of life in various SIE2014 PROTOZOA AND
environments. Reproduction in plants and INVERTEBRATES I
animals: comparative traits. Reproductive
rhythms in plants: flowering, pollination, Introduction to protozoa and invertebrate:
dispersal. Behavioural aspects of animal classification, diversity, ecology and
reproduction in rain forests. Other evolution will be explained in general.
rainforest adaptations and interactions Groups of invertebrate being discussed are
among organisms: herbivory and plant Protozoa, Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora
defences, myrmecophily, parasitism, and Lophotrochozoa. The biology,
saprophytism. The relationship among diversity, ecology, structure, function,
soils, climate and forest type. The forest importance etc. for each group of these
growth cycle and dynamic equilibrium. The animal will be discussed in details.
ecology of nutrient cycling and importance
of the hydrological system in forest Assessment Methods:
growth. Relationships among nutrients, Continuous Assessment: 50%
growth, structure and biological diversity. Summative Assessment: 50%
Key characteristics of biodiversity and
biogeography for rainforest species. The
concepts of carrying capacity and SIE2015 INVERTEBRATE II
environmental pressure. Degradation and
regrowth of forests. Consequences of Introduction and detail discussion on
various logging systems, rainforest Nematoda. Introduction to Arthropoda –
fragmentation and environmental
catastrophes. The rain forest as a biology, diversity, ecology, structure and
renewable resource; the concept of function, etc.; Detail discussion of the
sustainable forest management. Carbon arthropod group – Trilobitomorpha,
sequestration by vegetation. Timber, non- Chelicerata, Crustacea, Myriapoda,
wood forest products and other forest Hexapoda. Introduction to Deuterostomia
functions as management objectives. Non-
forest tropical landscapes: review of types, and Hemichordata - biology, diversity,
comparisons in terms of productivity. ecology, structure and function, etc. Detail
discussion of the deuterostome group –
Assessment Methods: Echinodermata.
Continuous Assessment: 60%
Summative Assessment: 40% Assessment Methods:
Continuous Assessment: 50%
Summative Assessment: 50%
SIE2012 AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Introduction to physical and chemical SIE2016 PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
aspects of aquatic systems, and their
importance to organisms. A review of This course begins with the basic concepts
marine and freshwater organisms with a in plant physiology of cells, energy and
focus on their ecological role. The basic
principles of aquatic ecology are discussed enzymes. Next, mechanisms in water
at the community and ecosystem level, absorption, water transport, phloem
followed by major marine and freshwater translocation, photosynthesis in C3, C4 and
ecosystem studies. Types and exploitation CAM plants, transpiration and the role of
of aquatic resources. Human impact on stomata in transpiration and leaf gaseous
aquatic ecosystems.
exchange. The basic morphology and
Assessment Methods: development of reproductive organs
Continuous Assessment: 60% (flowers, fruits and seeds), diversity of

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