Course image Wetland Ecology
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This course has been designed for the 3rd year students in Soil science and the nodule aims to:
- Acquaint students with the current concept of wetlands and its methods for the delimitation (identification, delineation, and classification, etc.) and assessment.
- Understand and evaluate the factors that affect pedogenesis phenomena
- Identify the various ways that cause the wetland degradations in order to make a plan for exploitation agricultural potential with reducing any harmful environmental incidence
- Be familiarized with the fundamental aspects of wetlands ecology
- Learning outcomes:
- After completion this course student should have to
- Understand the concept of wetland, the intrinsic qualities and ecological services provided by wetlands and its value to human
- Be able to identify the hydric soil indicators in the field to delineate wetlands
- Know the fundamental processes and the descriptive or analytical characteristic of specific soil covered under wetlands area, then wetland soil taxonomy( wetland suborder)
- Understand the criteria and indicators used for hydric soils