Subject description for 2024/25
Landscape Ecology and Nature management
BIO5020
Subject description for 2024/25
Landscape Ecology and Nature management
BIO5020
This course introduces students to fundamental concepts in landscape ecology (e.g., scale, habitat fragmentation, movement ecology, metapopulation dynamics, etc.), and how these concepts interact with the management of natural resources.
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This course introduces students to basic concepts in landscape ecology (e.g. scale, habitat fragmentation, movement ecology, metapopulation dynamics, etc.), and how these concepts interplay with natural resource management. The course combines various teaching activities and methods, such as classroom lectures, computer labs, guest lectures and seminars, and a joint landscape ecology ‘science project’, in which students participate in research design, fieldwork, data management and analyses, and scientific writing.
The subject is reserved for students in the Master's program in Biological Sciences. Qualified single-course students may gain access if there is capacity (first come, first served). Please contact the academic advisor for further information.
After course completion, the student is expected to possess the following knowledge, skills and general competence:
Knowledge:
- Good understanding of key concepts in landscape ecology and ecological theory.
- Be able to relate ecological concepts and theory to different approaches of natural resource management.
Skills:
- Become familiar with fieldwork and systematic data and mnagement collection in ecological research.
- Use of the R language and environment for exploring and analyzing basic ecological (spatial) data.
General competence:
- Students will become acquainted with the scientific method: from asking questions to presenting research findings (orally and in writing).
In addition to the semester fee and curriculum literature, it is assumed that the student has a laptop computer at his disposal.
Elective.
Lectures, self-study and literature review, computer labs, seminars, and science project..
Evaluated annually by students through course surveys. These evaluations are included in the university’s quality assurance system.
Compound assessment, grading scale letter grades
- Compulsory participation - data labs, field activities, and seminars. Approved/ Not approved.
- Oral exam, 30 minutes, comprises 100% of the grade, grading scale A-F.
NAT 330 Nature Management (20 ects), BIO201 Ecology (10 ects) or similar BSc or MSc level courses related to ecology and natural resource management.
Subject language
English
Credits
10
Study location
Steinkjer
Responsible faculty
Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture
Course coordinator
