ENS5310 Timetable of topics

Week

Interactive Seminar

Workshop

Theme I: Unit orientation and context

1

  • Biodiversity and ecosystem services
  • Unit nuts and bolts
  • Introduction to Biodiversity Assessment

2

  • Measuring and valuing biodiversity
  • Indicators of biodiversity

Theme II: The variation in life on Earth

3

  • Global biodiversity change: the good, bad and the ugly
  • Estimating threats using GIS
  • Threat analysis and forecasting
  • Forecasting species distribution in space and time

4

  • Using behaviour to detect and understand anthropogenic change
  • Soil contamination experiment

Theme III: Human impacts on life on Earth

5

  • Biosecurity and the process and consequences of biological invasion
  • Case study: The cane toad invasion

6

  • Conservation planning: an evolutionary perspective
  • Evolutionary solutions to conservation problems

7

  • Species, area and systems approaches
  • Exploring solutions to conserving biodiversity in a local system

Mid semester break

Theme IV: Sustainable solutions

8

  • Protected Areas
  • Measures of 'effective' Protected Areas

9

  • Integrated land management planning
  • Case study: Systematic conservation planning

10

  • Science for conservation policy and management
  • Science and international policy

11

  • Ecological and evolutionary patterns and drivers of life in space and time
  • Using biodiversity data

Theme V: Unit synthesis

12

  • Sustainable biodiversity solutions
  • Sustainable biodiversity solutions
  • BA Assignment conclusion