Level 3
- TB 3503 - TROPICAL FOREST AND SAVANNA ECOLOGY
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- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr M D Swaine
Pre-requisites
BI 2001 or permission of Head of School.
Notes
This course extends over 6 weeks only.
Overview
The course provides an introduction to the ecology of the two great tropical biomes, forest and savanna, and includes consideration of biological processes affecting both plants and animals. Forest structure and environment, plant forms and adaptations, variation in natural forest, forest dynamics, forest fire and montane forests. Savanna vegetation structure and environment, types of savanna, plant adaptations, dynamics, fire. Bats, birds, ungulates, frugivorous mammals, bilharzia and malaria.
Structure
Thread I: 4 one-hour lectures and 1 three-hour laboratory per week.
Assessment
1st Attempt: 1 two-hour examination (67%) and continuous assessment: essay and report (33%). Resit:
Level 4
- TB 4002 - TROPICAL ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE PROJECT
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- Credit Points
- 45
- Course Coordinator
- Dr M D Swaine
Pre-requisites
Available only to candidates for Honours in Tropical Environmental Science.
Overview
A project taken under the supervision of a member of staff in an appropriate department, as approved by the co-ordinator of the Honours programme.
Assessment
1st Attempt: Assessment based on project report (100%). Resit:
- TB 4501 - BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION IN THE TROPICS
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- Credit Points
- 15
- Course Coordinator
- Dr D F R P Burslem
Pre-requisites
BI 2001 or permission of Head of School.
Notes
This course extends over 6 weeks only.
Overview
The course will review the effects of human activities on biological resources in tropical countries and introduce the scientific principles underlying biological conservation. The problems of management for conservation of tropical plants and animals will be addresses.
Structure
4 one-hour lectures per week and 1 three-hour seminar per fortnight.
Assessment
1st Attempt: Thread II: 1 two-hour examination (67%) and continuous assessment (33%). Resit: