NNMK15003U Climate Change and Biodiversity
MSc Programme in Climate Change
MSc Programme in Biology
Lecture, discussion, and field-based course exploring the effects of climate and climate change on biodiversity and the services and functions it provides.
Knowledge:
By the end of this course, you will understand the fundamental concepts of biodiversity, its impact on the environment, and how climate change may impact biodiversity and thus ecosystem function.
Skills:
You will be able to: (1) read and interpret literature on climatic change, biodiversity and ecosystem function, (2) design a scientific field experiment to test biodiversity and climate change concepts, (3) understand how to collect, analyze, interpret, and present data, (4) engage in a scientific dialog about biodiversity and current topics in climate change and biodiversity.
Competences:
Students will understand what biodiversity is, how to measure biodiversity, how to interpret biodiversity data, and be able to present and discuss scientific information related to biodiversity.
Readings will be from the primary literature and will be made available prior to class sessions.
- Category
- Hours
- Colloquia
- 3
- Field Work
- 20
- Lectures
- 8
- Practical exercises
- 60
- Preparation
- 55
- Project work
- 60
- Total
- 206
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- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Type of assessment
- PortfolioPortfolio assessment: 40% field project and report, 20% written exam (2 hours), 20% presentation, 20% exercises. The course is passed if the final grade is passed irrespective of the grading of the subparts. The subparts do not have to be passed in the same exam period.
- Aid
- All aids allowed
- Marking scale
- 7-point grading scale
- Censorship form
- No external censorship
Several internal examiners
- Re-exam
Passed subparts can be reused in a re-examination.
Criteria for exam assesment
See Learning Outcome
Course information
- Language
- English
- Course code
- NNMK15003U
- Credit
- 7,5 ECTS
- Level
- Full Degree Master
- Duration
- 1 block
- Placement
- Block 4
- Schedule
- B
- Course capacity
- No limit
- Continuing and further education
- Study board
- Study Board of Biology and Animal Science
Contracting department
- The Natural History Museum of Denmark
Course responsibles
- Aimee Taylor Classen (aimee.classen@snm.ku.dk)
- Nate Sanders (nathan.sanders@snm.ku.dk)