701-1452-00L Wildlife Conservation and Management
Semester | Frühjahrssemester 2019 |
Dozierende | Noch nicht bekannt |
Periodizität | jährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung |
Lehrveranstaltung | Findet dieses Semester nicht statt. |
Lehrsprache | Englisch |
Lehrveranstaltungen
Nummer | Titel | Umfang | Dozierende | |
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701-1452-00 G | Wildlife Conservation and Management Findet dieses Semester nicht statt. | 2 Std. | Noch nicht bekannt |
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Kurzbeschreibung | The course deals with major issues in wildlife conservation and management, the emphasis being on the underlying population processes. Topics include species interactions (predation, herbivory), conservation challenges in a landscape-ecological context, and the social background (values, policies, etc.). The course consists of seminar-type lectures, lab exercises, home reading, and a field trip. |
Lernziel | Review major issues in wildlife conservation and management; understand the underlying ecological principles, particularly population processes; link them to principles of landscape ecology; be aware of human aspects and the distinction of scientific questions from questions rooting in society's value system; understand principles of policy formulation; become acquainted with simple modelling procedures; get some experience with field methods and field situations. |
Inhalt | The course deals with major issues in wildlife conservation and management with a focus on temperate regions as far as the topics go, but with a general view on principles. There will be an emphasis on population processes as the basis for management, and on applying this knowledge to problems of declining, small and harvestable populations, and population interactions such as predation, competition and herbivory. Aspects of how society's value system (stakeholder values, beliefs, laws) shape management goals and how valuation and science interact in policy formulation, will also be addressed. Conservation-oriented topics will be illustrated mainly with amphibian and reptile examples. The course consists of lectures with seminar-type discussion parts, preceded by home reading of pertinent literature, occasional lab exercises (using spreadsheets Excel or Open Office Calc, and SPSS/R), and a two-days field trip. Provisional program, sequence may change (WS=W. Suter, UH=U. Hofer): 1. Introduction; science & policy (WS) 2. Issues and methods in wildlife research (WS) 3. Population parameters in harvested species (WS) 4. Sustainable harvest (WS) 5. Conservation of vertebrates: Objectives, perspectives (UH) 6. Knowledge of species: Example indigenous reptiles (UH) 7. Evaluation of populations: population size (UH) 8. Evaluation of habitats: habitat use, habitat quality (UH) 9. Evaluation of landscapes: connectivity (UH) 10. Management issue 1: herbivory (WS) 11. Management issue 2: predation (WS) Field trip: Possibly 19-20 May, 2017 Provisional program: Day 1: Reptiles in subalpine environments - visit good reptile sites; evening-Day 2: visit to main large predator study area in western Alps, presentations by and discussions of human-large predator conflicts with researchers |
Skript | The course will partly be based on 'Mills, L.S. 2013. Conservation of Wildlife Populations. Demography, Genetics, and Management. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 326 pp.', and several chapters are strongly recommended. The book can be obtained from Link) Other literature/information will be provided as handouts or is available online. |
Literatur | other useful books: Fryxell, J.M., Sinclair, A.R.E. & Caughley, G. 2014. Wildlife Ecology, Conservation, and Management. 3rd edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 528 pp. Owen-Smith, N. 2007. Introduction to Modeling in Wildlife and Resource Conservation. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. 332 pp. Conroy, M.J. & Carroll, J.P. 2009. Quantitative Conservation of Vertebrates. Southern Gate: Wiley-Blackwell. 342 pp. |
Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The course builds on the Bachelor course '701-0305-00 G Ökologie der Wirbeltiere', and on subjects taught in courses such as '701-0310-00 G Naturschutz und Stadtbioökologie' and '701-0553-00 G Landschaftsökologie', or similar. Reading Fryxell et al. 2014 (see literature) would also provide an excellent background. Participants in the course are expected to have a fair level of background knowledge. |
Leistungskontrolle
Information zur Leistungskontrolle (gültig bis die Lerneinheit neu gelesen wird) | |
Leistungskontrolle als Semesterkurs | |
ECTS Kreditpunkte | 2 KP |
Prüfende | |
Form | Sessionsprüfung |
Prüfungssprache | Englisch |
Repetition | Die Leistungskontrolle wird in jeder Session angeboten. Die Repetition ist ohne erneute Belegung der Lerneinheit möglich. |
Prüfungsmodus | schriftlich 60 Minuten |
Hilfsmittel schriftlich | keine |
Diese Angaben können noch zu Semesterbeginn aktualisiert werden; verbindlich sind die Angaben auf dem Prüfungsplan. |
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Einschränkungen
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