Credit hours
In-class work per week |
Practice per week |
Credits |
Duration |
Total |
20 |
0 |
4 |
3 weeks |
60 hours |
Instructor
Flávio Bertin Gandara Mendes
Jaime Aparecido Bertoluci
Teresa Cristina Magro Lindenkamp
Objective
To provide students with foundations in Conservation Biology that will help them understand the
extrinsic factors (biotic and abiotic) that promote population declines and species extinctions, the
intrinsic characteristics that predispose species to these threats, and the strategies used in their
conservation.
Content
1. Basic Concepts: 1.1. Historical background, 1.2. Ethics and conservation, 1.3. Threats to biodiversity,
2.1. Extinction, 2.2. Habitat destruction and modification, 2.3. Introduction of exotic species, 2.4. Air
and water pollution, 2.5. Commercial exploitation and traditional use, 2.5. Pets, 2.6. Use in teaching and
research, 2.7. Population-level approach, 3.1. Long-lived species, 3.2. Species with low reproductive
rates, 3.3. Species with low colonization and dispersal rates, 3.4. Endemic species, 3.5. Species with
colonial nesting, 3.6. Migratory species, 3.7. Diversity and genetic conservation, 4. Approach at the
community level, 4.1. Patterns of diversity, 4.2. Key interactions, 4.3. Fragmentation, 4.4. Disturbance
regimes, 4.5. The perspective of landscape ecology in the study of fragmentation, 5. techniques of
inventory and monitoring of populations and communities, 6. conservation strategies, 6.1. Habitat
protection, 6.2. Coexistence with man, 6.3. Research, 6.4. Public education, 6.5. National legislation,
6.6. Control of international trade, 6.7. Captive breeding and cultivation and sustainable use, 6.8.
Restoration of populations and communities, 6.9. Protected areas, 6.10. Public policies.
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