ZEN 808 Conservation Planning and Monitoring - exchange with other module 2019

Biodiversity survey techniques, data and information management, data assessment, principles of data extrapolation, inventories, biodiversity risk assessment (PHVA, small and declining population paradigms, prioritisation), principles of reserve selection, surrogacy, reserve design, integrated land-use planning. Landscape theories and models (hierarchy, percolation, metapopulation, source-sink); scaling patterns and processes across landscapes (patches, corridors, mosaics and flows); emerging patterns and processes; principles of landscape dynamics; principles of landscape conservation, management and design (transformation, fragmentation); methods in landscape ecology (numerical and spatial data processing, fractal geometry approach, GIS, remote sensing, GPS, spatially explicit population models).

MODULE NO LONGER AVAILABLE - WAS PRESENTED IN DEPT ZOOLOGY

[ 15 credits ]