Undergraduate handbook 2005 - 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):

• BIO1011 and either BIO1022 or BIO1042, and
• any two of BIO2031, BIO2042, BIO3111 or GEN3062.

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

• BIO1011 and either BIO1022 or BIO1042, and
• BIO2031, BIO2042 and one of BIO2011, BIO2051, BIO2181 or BIO2231, and
• BIO3111 and any two of BIO3011, BIO3021, BIO3041, BIO3082, BIO3091*, BIO3103 , BIO3122*, BIO3132, or GEN3062.

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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