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Environmental and conservation biology - Faculty of Science

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 one of BIO1022 or BIO1042
• Any two of BIO2031, BIO2042, BIO3111, or GEN3062

Major sequence in environmental and conservation biology (48 points)

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

A list of related units are provided in the `Biological sciences' entry in this section of the handbook.

* These units have compulsory level-two prerequisites.