Your Biology and Biosciences offer holder day

Your offer holder day dates:

• Saturday 18 April

Your subject session:

How we use invertebrate and plant morphology to answer ecological questions

As ecologists, we often want to determine what organisms we find in a habitat, and we also want to study how the organisms around us are adapted to their habitats. Through this practical session, we will show you how we identify invertebrates. We use this skill to work out the biodiversity of a habitat, to determine if habitat restoration is working and to determine if rare species are present. We will also look at a plant trait – the presence and abundance of stomata. Plants can vary in their stomata density and size based on environmental factors and ecologists can use microscopy to measure these features of stomata.