Biodiversity and Global Change: Science & Action

Biodiversity and Global Change: Science & Action

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Syllabus

  • Week 1 - What is Biodiversity?
    This first module of the course focuses on the foundations of biodiversity and the science surrounding it. The first two video lectures cover what we mean by the term "biodiversity", overview the vast diversity of organisms that inhabit the Earth, and put this...
  • Week 2 - Evolution and Classification of Biodiversity
    Evolution is the process by which all the amazing biodiversity on Earth arose from a single species. This module will give you an overview of what is evolution, how it works, and the importance of sex (a key contributor to diversification via evolution). You w...
  • Week 3 - Biodiversity in Your Lives
    You just spent two weeks watching video lectures and answering quizzes. This week / module is different, and gets you "hands-on" with some of the biodiversity in your lives. Specifically, you will learn about "dietary diversity": the diversity of organisms tha...
  • Week 4 - Biodiversity in Space and Time
    Biodiversity varies greatly through space and time, and information about this variation is one of the most important ingredients of biodiversity science. The first part of the module concerns how we can discover where species are located, and hence create kno...
  • Week 5 - Importance of Biodiversity
    This modules concerns thinking and ideas about the importance of biodiversity. One way to think about the importance of biodiversity is to consider and document its values, for example the vast array of products that are derived from organisms. A recent develo...
  • Week 6 - Threats to Biodiversity
    The history of biodiversity on Earth is full of extinctions of species, and indeed at least five mass extinctions. And yet there is great concern, based on considerable evidence, that effects of humans on the Earth, from small to global scales, is threatening ...
  • Week 7 - Helping Biodiversity
    Given the importance of biodiversity, and the threats it currently faces, there is considerable ongoing effort to help biodiversity. You will learn about conservation ethics, organisations, and treaties, and about the relationships between business and conserv...
  • Week 8 - Be a Biodiversity Ambassador
    The final module of course focuses on the action that you can take to help biodiversity. That is, how you can be a Biodiversity Ambassador. The first video covers the many things that people and organisations are doing to help, conserve, and protect biodiversi...

Prerequisite

None.

Instructors

  • Owen Petchey, Professor of Integrative Ecology
    Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies
  • Susanne Schulmeister, eLearning Instructor and Project Manager
    Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies

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