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B028224 - WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
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Course Content
Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2018-19
Coorte 2018 - Second Cycle Degree in WILDLIFE SCIENCES AND MANAGEMENT
Course year
First year - Second Semester
Belonging Department
Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
BIO/05 - ZOOLOGY
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
25/02/2019 ⇒ 07/06/2019
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Mutuality
Course teached as:
B016242 - CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DELLE RISORSE FAUNISTICHE
Second Cycle Degree in SCIENZE DELLA NATURA E DELL'UOMO
Curriculum CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DELLA NATURA
B016242 - CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DELLE RISORSE FAUNISTICHE
Second Cycle Degree in SCIENZE DELLA NATURA E DELL'UOMO
Curriculum CONSERVAZIONE E GESTIONE DELLA NATURA
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
Concept of alpha and beta diversity. Ecosystem services. Management of threatened species. Ethology and conservation. Reintroductions. Protected areas. Agencies for conservation actions. Threats to biodiversity. Alien species, their impacts and their management. Climate change. Regulations on conservation. LIFE program
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Primack e Carotenuto Conservazione della natura. Zanichelli Primack e Boitani Biologia della conservazione. Zanichelli
Learning Objectives
Knowledge acquired: Basic theoretical and practical knowledge of conservation and management methods. Competence acquired: Acquisition and use of an appropriate terminology; basic tools to deal with the fauna conservation adopting a multidisciplinary approach. Skills acquired (at the end of the course): Autonomous capacity to manage the fauna from different aspects (science, society, regulations). Capacity to identify critical issues for biodiversity (and their causes). Application of the economic concepts to the conservation, and of the conservation/management strategies.
Prerequisites
Zoology, Ecology, Animal ecology
Teaching Methods
Lectures (Power Point slides). Field excursions. Working groups to draft a potential species deserving protection according to the IUCN criteria.
Type of Assessment
Oral exam. Discussion of a Power point presentation prepared by the candidate on a topic of the course.
Course program
Biodiversity concept. History of conservation. How to measure biodiversity (quantitative/qualitative indices). Genetics and conservation. Biodiversity at ecosystem level. Ecosystem services. Sixth extinction. Threats to biodiversity. Alien species, their impacts and their management. Climate change and assisted colonization. IUCN classification and management of threatened species. Reintroductions. Protected areas. Agencies for conservation actions. Regulations on conservation. LIFE program. Conservation and sustainable development. Ecological economy. Social perception of conservation and citizen science. Conservation evidence.