ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: External department linked to the degrees, Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology
Areas: Área externa M. U. en Biodiversidad Terrestre: Caracterización, Conservación y Gestión, Zoology
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
• To apply criteria that characterize the level of threat of the wildlife fauna.
• To draw up conservation and recovery plans.
1. Introduction. Terminology on threatened fauna.
2. Biological and technical considerations for characterizing the threatened fauna.
3. Legal framework on threatened fauna.
4. Conservation Units.
5. Conservation and recovery plans.
6. Limiting and threatening factors for the fauna.
7. Ex situ conservation. Reintroductions.
Contents of other activities (laboratory classes, seminars, office hours, etc.)
1. Threatened fauna at the global scale and at the Galician and Spanish Catalogues.
2. Practical lesson: population viability analyses on threatened fauna.
Primack, R. B. (2014). Essentials of Conservation Biology. 6th Edition. Sinauer
Associates. Massachusetts, USA.
Spellerberg, I. F. (1996). Conservation Biology. Longman, Singapure
UICN. (2012). Categorías y Criterios de la Lista Roja de la UICN: Versión 3.1. Segunda edición. Gland, Suiza y Cambridge, Reino Unido: UICN. vi + 34 pp. Originalmente publicado como IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria: Version 3.1. Second edition. (Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN, 2012). Disponible en: https://www.iucn.org/es/content/categor%C3%ADas-y-criterios-de-la-lista…
Basic competences
CB2- To apply the acquired knowledge, being able to solve problems in novel or less familiar environments into a wider or multidisciplinary context.
CB3- To assimilate the acquired knowledge, being able to face the complexity of making an assessment based on partial or limited information, including critical though on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the implementation of their knowledge and advice.
CB4- To communicate their conclusions to both a specialized and a non-specialized audience in a clear and accurate way.
XERAIS
CG01- To analyze the current and future condition of the terrestrial biodiversity.
CG05- To contribute to the development of knowledge in the field of the terrestrial biodiversity.
TRANSVERSAIS
CT2- Reasoning, arguing and decision making abilities.
CT3- Team work abilities, including the ability of confronting problematic situations collectively.
CT5- Truthfulness commitment.
ESPECÍFICAS
CE5- To know and apply the methodology for monitoring natural populations and to recognize, if necessary, the level of threat of a particular species or their invasive potential.
Lesson-explanation: teaching methodology by which the teacher presents concepts and/or procedures, giving the basic information necessary to understand a theoretical framework or a practical process, promoting the students participation.
Practical lesson: it takes place in the field, laboratory or computer room and aims the observation in situ of the physical environment as well as the species inhabiting there, the execution of experiments or the learning and application of specific software, under the supervision of the teacher.
Computer practices: through the performance of various exercises, some of the different ways of carrying out a Population Feasibility Analysis will be illustrated. At the end of the practice, students must submit the solutions / answers obtained and said report will represent 15% of the final grade.
Field practices: there will be an exit to the field in an area where threatened fauna and its conservation problem can be observed. These practices will be evaluated based on a written work done by the students on what was observed in the field practice. It will count as 15% of the final grade.
Exam: there will be a written exam on the content addressed in the videoconference master sessions and will account for 70% of the final grade.
ACTIVITY HOURS PRESENCE
Expositive lessons 7 100% presence
Interactive lessons 14 100% presence
Obligatory office hours 1 100% presence
Exam 2 100% presence
Own student work 51 0% presence
Total 75
Jesus Dominguez Conde
- Department
- Zoology, Genetics and Physical Anthropology
- Area
- Zoology
- Phone
- 881813268
- jesus.dominguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Thursday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |
| Friday | |||
| 09:30-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |