BZ3215 - Conservation Biology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | School of Marine & Tropical Biology |
The application of principles from population ecology, community ecology and genetics to the conservation of threatened populations and communities. Topics include causes of extinction, stochastic population modelling, genetics in conservation, effects of habitat fragmentation, concepts in biodiversity, principles of reserve design, case studies.
Learning Outcomes
- development of critical faculties in the use of theory-based techniques and guidelines for management;
- familiarity with current theories and controversies in conservation biology;
- understanding of the interface between theory and practice in conservation.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
- The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
- The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
- The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area.
| Prerequisites: | (BZ2440 or MB2060) and BT1001 and BZ1001 and ZL1001 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | BZ5215 and ZL3204 and ZL5204 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 04-Apr-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Christopher Johnson |
| Lecturers: | Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Assoc. Professor Michelle Waycott, Professor Christopher Johnson, Professor Ross Alford. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); essays (25%); assignments (15%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 04-Apr-2008 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Christopher Johnson |
| Lecturers: | Dr Anna Koetz, Professor Christopher Johnson. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); essays (25%); assignments (15%). |
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