Conservation Biology
Third course. Environmental Sciences Degree.
Syllabus
News:
Presentations:
UNIT 5: CONSERVATION DIAGNOSTICS: Habitats.
5.2.Ecological Niche Modelling
UNIT 6: CONSERVATION DIAGNOSTICS: Global change.
6. Global Change and biodiversity conservation
UNIT 7: CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF SPECIES AND AREAS.
7. Assessment criteria for species and areas
UNIT 8: SOME GENERAL SOLUTIONS TO CONSERVATION PROBLEMS .
ACTIVITIES:
Forms of habitat degradation
Roma
World population
Technology
The tragedy of commons
Links:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-h0PEplxc0 (Dinosaurs extinction)
Readings:
- Emerging problems of data quality in citizen science. 2016. Conservation Biology. 30 (3): 447-449.
- Promoting transparency in conservation science. 2016. Conservation Biology. 30 (6): 1149-1150.
- Recovery of large carnivores in Europe’s modern human-dominated landscapes
- The tragedy of commons (original version Science 1968)
- The tragedy of commons (Wikipedia)
- The tragedy of commons (presentation)
- Avian migration phenology and global climate change
- Phenology timing related species
- Phenology constraints or adaptations
- Reconstructing and analysing historic land changes in Europe
- Coastal Sensitivity to Sea-Level Rise: A Focus on the Mid-Atlantic Region
- Global land change from 1982 to 2016