Teaching Program

Current Course Descriptions

Undergraduate - Ecology - Code 535

DESCRIPTION:

It is a course of Introduction to Ecology with emphasis in teaching constraints in the farm and rangeland production systems. Factors involved in the distribution and abundance of organisms, and the possibility of its utilization, are studied in this course.

Applied ecosystem characteristics which deserve particular attention include: energy flow, primary productivity of natural and cultivated systems, biogeochemical cycles and its importance in productivity, natural and antropic ecological succession, population ecology, population dynamics, with emphasis on organisms which are damaging to agriculture, methods of vegetation study, and basic principles related to the structure and functioning of agroecosystems.

SYNTHETIC THEORETICAL PROGRAM:

Introduction.

Environmental Factors.

  1. Abiotics.
  2. Biotics.

Ecosystem organization.

  1. Energy flow and trophic levels.
  2. Nutrient cycling.

Ecosystem dynamics.

  1. To a population level.
    1. Genecology.
    2. Population properties.
  2. To a community level
    1. Changes in community structure with time. Succession.
    2. Island biodiversity. Strategies for species conservation.

Rangeland, urban and agricultural ecosystems.

Introduction to Agroecology.

  1. Agroecology.
  2. Agronomic and ecological characteristics of sustainable rangeland and agricultural systems.

Land arrangement with agronomic view.

Ecological characteristics of major biomes and its possibilities for sustainable utilization. Steps in planning adequate use of the environment.

Undergraduate - Autoecology of Rangeland Plants - Code 506

DESCRIPTION:

This course will provide knowledge to students on response mechanisms of rangeland plants to various disturbances (water stress, herbivory, fire, nutrient deficiency, salinity, toxic ions and extreme temperatures). This knowledge contributes to predict plant responses under specific environmental (biotic and abiotic) conditions, which in turn will contribute to a better rangeland management.

SYNTHETIC THEORETICAL PROGRAM:
  1. General description of arid and semiarid areas in Argentina.
  2. Stress and strain concepts.
  3. Plant water relationships.
  4. Effects and resistance mechanisms on plants exposed to water stress, herbivory, fire, nutrient deficiency, salinity, toxic ions, extreme temperatures.

Postgraduate - How to write and publish scientific articles - Code 2678

DESCRIPTION:

Graduate students on sciences of all academic disciplines need practical information about scientific writing. In addition, as Editor of Phyton, International Journal of Experimental Botany (www.revistaphyton.fund-romuloraggio.org.ar; www.scielo.org.ar), I realize that a substantial amount of manuscripts received for publication consideration in this Journal have important constraints on the different manuscript sections. It is necessary a course that teach those graduate students all necessary knowledge for publishing their scientific research in peer-reviewed, national and international Journals. Emphasis will be placed on all those necessary details, which allow that writing a scientific article be pleasant and successful. More common mistakes at the time of publishing will be clarified.

SYNTHETIC THEORETICAL PROGRAM:
  1. Explain and encourage to students about the importance of a good scientific writing for the various kinds of writing a scientist must produce.
  2. Description of a basic plan.
  3. Description of a master plan.
  4. The first draft.
  5. The first revision: structural changes.
  6. Additional revision: polishing the style.
  7. The final steps.
  8. Work with the manuscript based on the Editor response of the Journal selected for publication.
  9. Design of Tables and Figures.

Undergraduate and Postgraduate - Responsable of evaluating the examination of English Language - Code 541

DESCRIPTION:

The exam consists on the translation of a technical text in Agronomy. It is a written exam of 1-hour-long. During this time, a minimum of either 200 or 400 words must be translated by undergraduate or graduate students, respectively, from English to Spanish. Quality of the translated text will be evaluated. Use of dictionaries is allowed as well as any other material the student think it can help during the examination (i.e., glossary).