EM323 Wildlife Ecology and Management

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Credit Points

Offering

Responsible Campus	Teaching Period	Mode of Study
Armidale	Trimester 2	Off Campus
Armidale	Trimester 2	On Campus

Intensive School(s)

Start	Finish	Attendance	Notes
26 June 2013	28 June 2013	Mandatory	Ability to enrol in this unit will be removed approx two days prior to the commencement of this mandatory intensive school.

Supervised Exam

There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.

Pre-requisites

ECOL203 or ECOL210 or candidature in BRurSc or candidature in a postgraduate award

Co-requisites

None

Restrictions

EM423 or EM523

Notes

offered on-campus odd years only

Combined Units

EM523 - Wildlife Ecology and Management

Coordinator(s)

Karl Vernes (kvernes@une.edu.au)

Unit Description

This unit covers the ecology of Australasian wildlife (native and introduced species of freshwater fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals), the anthropogenic land-use impacts that have affected wildlife in the region, and modern methods employed to manage wildlife. The unit is organised according to three major themes: (1) the ecology of Australasian wildlife; (2) anthropogenic landscape processes that have, or continue to impact upon wildlife species and communities; and (3) the practical and theoretical approaches taken in the management of Australasian wildlife.

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Assessment

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Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

demonstrate an advanced understanding of the ecology of Australasian wildlife species; the communities they form and the natural factors that influence them;
use appropriate analytical tools and survey methods of wildlife ecology and management (such as population estimation, survey design and implementation) effectively;
understand how and why human activities have impacts upon wildlife communities, and apply that understanding to wildlife management problems and situations; and
communicate an understanding of the general themes of wildlife ecology and management such as pest management, disease, harvest and human dimensions, in the context of Australasian wildlife.

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline Students collect and analyse datasets pertaining to contemporary wildlife management issues, and use methodological approaches and tools relevant to the discipline. Lectures include theoretical knowledge of wildlife management principles, as well as practical examples from the wildlife literature to show how this theory is used in practice.
2	Communication Skills Students participate in class discussions in practicals and tutorials - each of these sessions involves an assessable student presentation of a topic that precedes the discussion. The presentation and class discussions are assessable.
3	Global Perspectives The wildlife management issues presented and discussed in class are relevant wildlife management around the world. However, the unit has a focus on Australasia.
4	Information Literacy Students are assessed on their ability to demonstrate research capacity in written assignments, and to utilise a wide range of sources from the textbook, and from the published scientific literature.
5	Life-Long Learning Students are taught learning skills that will be useful to them beyond the unit of learning.
6	Problem Solving Lectures, tutorials and practicals (including the assessable practical component of this unit) requires students to use analytical and problem solving skills (e.g. statistical analyse) learned in earlier units to solve problems relevant to the data they collect and interpret.
7	Social Responsibility This applied unit includes lectures and practicals that focus on issues like wildlife control methods, human-wildlife conflict, species conservation - topics that have social responsibility firmly embedded within them.
8	Team Work Data collection for all practical elements to this unit has a team-work emphasis.

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