Entry requirements

120 credits including Biology 55 credits and Faunistics and Floristics 5 credits

Content

The course contains a combination of theory and practice; lectures connected with laboratory work; fieldwork connected with planning of a scientific study and molecular laboratory work and training of the participants' ability to produce scientific texts orally present scientific projects, critically review and discuss scientific texts The students come in contact with modern phylogenetic research during an individual project. Phylogenetic methods are now widely used within several fields, also within the nature conservation. Through the broad perspective of the course, the participants obtain a good insight in the organisms' importance for ecology and for human future, and for various scenarios of important environmental issues e g climate and management of natural resources. Ecological commitment is centrlal for the discussions during the course. Several parts in the course give a good basis for assessments of interaction between different organism groups and the environmental effects for applied conservation biology, and is also a basis for the understanding for a sustainable development.