2025
Biodiversity and Conservation
Name: Biodiversity and Conservation
Code: BIO07384D
5 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/130 hours
Scientific Area:
Biology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
• Valuing biodiversity and nature conservation in a multidisciplinary context
• Learning to be practical and efficient in conservation argumentation
• Learning the basics of Population Viability Analysis
• To recognize grazing, agricultural intensification and habitat fragmentation by linear infra-structures as major
threats for nature conservation in the Mediterranean Region
• Learning to be practical and efficient in conservation argumentation
• Learning the basics of Population Viability Analysis
• To recognize grazing, agricultural intensification and habitat fragmentation by linear infra-structures as major
threats for nature conservation in the Mediterranean Region
Contents
Human Population Growth and Environmental degradation
Main Guidelines in Conservation Biology
Ethics and conservation
Biodiversity: losses and threatens
Conservation: UICN conservation categories and legislation
Active management for conservation
Protected and classified areas
Sustainable development
Ecology, sociology, politics and economy
Conservation Biologists: How to be efficient in defending conservation points of view
Population Viability Analysis
Global changes
Landscape ecology and conservation
Agriculture and conservation
Main Guidelines in Conservation Biology
Ethics and conservation
Biodiversity: losses and threatens
Conservation: UICN conservation categories and legislation
Active management for conservation
Protected and classified areas
Sustainable development
Ecology, sociology, politics and economy
Conservation Biologists: How to be efficient in defending conservation points of view
Population Viability Analysis
Global changes
Landscape ecology and conservation
Agriculture and conservation
Teaching Methods
Theory in oral lessons; talking and discussion in thematic seminars;
Evaluation through continuous follow-up in class. Written reports and PowerPoint presentations on short
seminars about specific issues in conservation Biology.
Evaluation through continuous follow-up in class. Written reports and PowerPoint presentations on short
seminars about specific issues in conservation Biology.
Accreditations and Certifications
