BZ3215 - Conservation Biology
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2009 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 4 |
| 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; concepts in biodiversity; systematic conservation planning; 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.
| Assumed Knowledge: | Students enrolling in this subject should have a good background in level 2 biology and a good understanding of principles of population and community ecology, and of quantitative methods in biology and should have completed BZ2440 and BS2001 or equivalents. |
| Prerequisites: | BZ2440 AND BS2001 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | BZ5215 ZL3204 ZL5204 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 27-Mar-2009 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Christopher Johnson |
| Lecturers: | Assoc. Professor Peter Valentine, Assoc. Professor Michelle Waycott, Professor David Blair, 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 27-Mar-2009 | |
| 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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