Module BO4103: Plant Conservation and Biodiversity
| Co-ordinator: | Professor Stephen Waldren |
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| Course Type: | Optional |
| Assessment: | 50% Examination, 50% Continual Assessment |
| ECTS: | 5 credits |
| Prerequisites: | None |
Contact hours:
| Lectures: | 19 hours |
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| Practicals: | 18 hours |
| Total | 37 hours |
Description:
This module provides the theoretical background to the evolution and distribution of plant diversity, and goes on apply this to aspects of plant conservation.
Learning outcomes:
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
- Identify key processes that lead to the development of higher plant diversity
- Explain how patterns of plant diversity have arisen
- Assemble, manipulate and critically analyse experimental data related to plant diversity
- Describe the processes that threaten plant diversity, and evaluate the degree of threat
- Evaluate national legislation and policy related to plant diversity and its conservation
- Evaluate global and national initiatives to conserve plant diversity.