3 ECTS credits
75 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4018812FNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Enrollment Requirements
Students who want to enroll for this course, must be enrolled in the programme Master Biology: Tropimundo.
Taught in
French
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Science and Bio-engineering Sciences
Department
Biology
External partners
Museum national d'Histoire naturelle
Educational team
Decaan WE (course titular)
Activities and contact hours

10 contact hours Lecture
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
Course Content

Table of contents :

Définition, origine du bois et fonctions assurées par ce tissu. Principes et applications de l'expertise en xylologie. Caractères anatomiques, variabilité individuelle (racine, tronc, branche) et variabilité intra-spécifique. Xylologie, phylogénie et environnement ; importance du bois dans la reconstitution des paléoenvironnements, et applications à quelques gisements fossiles (observations au microscope, interprétations, dessins)

Additional info

Course material, text books and further reading :

Notes de cours. Articles scientifiques.

Baas, P., 2010. New Perspectives in Wood Anatomy. Springer, Germany. 264 pp.

Wilson, K. & D.J.B. White, 2006. Anatomy of Wood: Its Diversity and Variability. Stobart Davies Limited, 316 pp.

Carlquist, S., 2001. Comparative Wood Anatomy: Systematic, Ecological, and Evolutionary Aspects of Dicotyledon Wood. Springer, Germany. 458 pp.

Please consult the course descriptions on the TROPIMUNDO website for the most completed and updated course descriptions

 

Learning Outcomes

Algemene Competenties

Course objectives : Le cours vise une reconnaissance des indications fournies par les caractères microscopiques du bois en systématique, phylogénie et écologie. Application aux bois fossiles pour la reconstruction des paléoflores et des paléoenvironnements.

Learning outcomes : please note the general comment on learning outcomes

Education level: Specialised Ecosystem focus: Plant Biological level: Organism

Reconnaitre les caractères microscopiques du bois (coupe récentes comme fossiles) en systématique, phylogénie et écologie et pouvoir reconstruer des paléoflores et des paléoenvironnements à l’aide de ces cacatères.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Other Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Exam : 50% Oral

Exam : 50% Written

2nd session : oral or written exam to be decided by the teacher

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Brussels
Master of Biology: AR Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Tropical Biodiversity and Ecosystems, start at Cayenne