| Module code | ZEN 872 |
| Qualification | Postgraduate |
| Faculty | Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences |
| Module content | Demography with emphasis on forces affecting population growth rate and regulation; competition and facilitation within and between populations; risk and risk assessment; temporal trends and extinction; management, harvesting and control with emphasis on illustrating principles using studies conducted in Africa. Structure, composition and function of communities with emphasis on factors affecting resilience, resistance and persistence; temporal variability with emphasis on the influences of foodwebs structure and environmental variability; spatial pattern analysis; species-abundance relations; species affinities; community classification. |
| Module credits | 30.00 |
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| Prerequisites | No prerequisites. |
| Contact time | 4 discussion classes per week |
| Language of tuition | English |
| Academic organisation | Zoology and Entomology |
| Period of presentation | Year |
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