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Undergraduate handbook 2004
Science

Environmental and conservation biology

Contact: Dr Dennis O'Dowd (School of Biological Sciences)

The discipline

Environmental and conservation biology is a new, integrated science that addresses the protection of the world's biodiversity and ecosystem function. Its key goals are to document the Earth's biodiversity, develop an understanding of human impacts upon biodiversity and devise practical means to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem function.

Sequence requirements

Minor sequence in environmental and conservation biology (24 points):

Major sequence in environmental and conservation biology (48 points):

Details of these units and a full list of related units are provided in the `Biological sciences' entry in this section of the handbook.

*These units have compulsory level-two prerequisites beyond those listed at level two.

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