General information
| Course name | Study trip: Excursion: Mycological excursion to Müritz National Park |
| Semester | WiSe 2023/24 |
| Current number of participants | 9 |
| expected number of participants | 8 |
| Home institute | Pflanzenökologie |
| Courses type | Study trip in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen |
| First date | Monday, 02.10.2023 08:00 - 18:00 |
| Type/Form | Part of the mandatory module "Botanical and zoological excursions" |
| Participants |
Zoom meeting before the excursion to discuss organization details will take place on the 18.07.23 at 10 am. Excursion from 02.10.-06.10.2023 Accommodation in the Biological research station "Faule Ort" in the Müritz National Park. (Preliminary) Costs: ca. 30 € per person for food. Travel and accommodation are for free. Food preparation will be done communally by the participants in agreement with the supervisor. All participants will be traveling together with a university van. Movement within the national park will be done by bike. Course language: English |
| Pre-requisites |
No previous knowledge necessary. Interest in learning about different groups of fungi and their ecology. Participants preferably enjoy a mix of fieldwork, microscopy and literature/identification work. The research station is located 4 km outside of the next village (in the core zone of the national park) and participants should be willing to spent sometime without fast and stable phone and internet connection. Short distance travel by bike is desired. |
| Learning organisation | Each day will consist of a morning excursion followed by studying of the collected specimens in the afternoon. |
| Studiengänge (für) |
Master "Biodiversity Sciences". Empty places may be filled with students of the Master "Biology" |
| Miscellanea |
Goal of this excursion is to learn about different groups of fungi and how to find and identify them. Be it either the big and sometimes tasty mycorrhizal fungi, tiny pathogens on leaves or weird saprotrophs hiding in the leaf litter - fungi are omnipresent and often overlooked and this excursion is about finding them. |
| ECTS points | 2.5 |
