Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 1 x 2 hour lecture per week |
| Practical | 6 x 4 hour practicals over two semesters |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Species recording exercises (Semester 1) | 30% |
| Semester Assessment | Conservation management plan | 40% |
| Semester Exam | 1.5 Hours Examination | 30% |
| Supplementary Exam | 1.5 Hours Examination | 30% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Coursework Students will be required to undertake work equivalent to the elements that led to failure of the module | 70% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
1. Describe the motivations, designations and powers available to protect wildlife
2. Distinguish different wildlife habitats, devise appropriate management objectives and their delivery through conservation management plans based on current ecological theory
3. Select, apply and interpret data from a range of species surveying and monitoring techniques
Brief description
This module covers the ecological principles plus the practical skills of species monitoring and habitat management that are required by today¿s professional conservation practitioner. An understanding of applied community ecology is developed, in conjunction with the ability to record dynamic ecological processes. Management planning methodologies are evaluated. The techniques used to maintain, enhance and re-create the conservation value of a range of habitats are examined.
Content
Directing succession
Habitat creation theory
Vegetation recording
Animal population recording
Data interpretation and site comparison
Long-term recording schemes
Conservation management tools;
Woodlands and wetlands
Grasslands
Grazing management
Moors and heaths
Invasive species
Sand dunes and coastal habitats
Conservation designations and legal powers
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | The practical exercises require the analysis and interpretation of field data. |
| Communication | |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | The production of the conservation management plan requires the student to be able to self-manage. To successfully complete the exercise, students must allow sufficient time to assimilate the various pieces of information (handling field data, accessing published literature) and for integration of the different components into the final report. |
| Information Technology | The species surveying exercises will generate data that students will be required to process using appropriate IT packages and present in an accessible format |
| Personal Development and Career planning | The outcomes of the module are designed to provide the practical skills and academic understanding that are required by the professional countryside conservation manager of the 21st century |
| Problem solving | The conservation management planning assignment will develop the students¿ ability to work independently on a practical project integrating the skills of habitat surveying, species recording, defining management objectives, and producing workable prescriptions. These aspects will then be presenting in a clear, well-structured report that justifies its recommendations with reference to the ecological literature. |
| Research skills | The species surveying and recording assignments will require students to record, present and statistically analyse numerical information and critically comment on its meaning. |
| Subject Specific Skills | |
| Team work | The field visits not only provide the opportunity to practice the skills of habitat surveying and management planning prior to the assessment exercise, they also provide an opportunity for the students to interact with each while performing a range of group activities |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 5