Dates
| weekly | Thursday | 15:50 - 16:35 | 06.04.2026 - 10.07.2026 | C 11.307 Seminarraum | gleicher Raum wie gekoppeltes Seminar im Zeitslot danach |
Curriculum context
Resit date: No resit date will be offered to this assessment, because it is didactically inseparably connected with one of the associated courses. A resit will only be possible, if the module is available again.
Organizational information
Registration
Registration ends 07.4.2026 at 23:59 h
If your registration for this course is successful you will registered automatically for the course Impact of Climate Change on Ecosystems - S (Markus Quante, Michael Staab).
Persons
Content
Lecture and seminar have the following contents:
- Components of the climate system
- Greenhouse effect and radiative forcing
- Observed changes in climate parameters
- The intensification of the water cycle
- Natural variability and anthropogenic signal
- The historical perspective
- Scenario-based projections into the future
- Climate change in the regions
- Shifting vegetation zones
- Effects of climate change on biotic communities and populations
- Effects of climate change on ecosystem functions and ecosystem services
- Consideration of selected systems particularly affected by climate change
Insights into current climate research, familiarisation with the relationships between climate change and ecosystem functions; description and analysis of ecosystem changes
and analysis of ecosystem changes; formulation and possible (experimental) testing of hypotheses on the influence of climate change on ecosystems; presentation and
presentation of the interrelationships discussed (oral and written)
Evaluation
Further information on teaching evaluation: https://www.leuphana.de/en/teaching/quality-management/feedback-instruments.html