2023/24 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

BLGY5219M Habitat Management

15 creditsClass Size: 45

Module manager: Dr Alastair Ward
Email: A.Ward@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2023/24

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

The module seeks to provide experience and understanding of the management challenges and conservation activities undertaken at a range of different protected sites. It is taught largely on location at a series of nature reserves, SSSIs and other sites of conservation interest in the region, chosen to reflect a wide range of ecotopes and management issues. The site visits will be supplemented with lectures on different management issues, including external lecturers from relevant organisations. Assessments consist of a group exercise to produce a plan to improve biodiversity at an urban site, and an individual executive summary for a management plan for a chosen site.

Objectives

On completion of this module students will be familiar with the challenges faced and activities undertaken at a range of protected areas, and will be able to design, implement and evaluate habitat management changes.

Learning outcomes
On completion of the module students will be able to:

1. Understand the principles of habitat management for a range of different protected areas;

2. Identify key biodiversity features of, and threats to, different wildlife habitats;

3. Design management interventions to achieve clear aims and objectives at protected sites.

Skills outcomes
- You will gain experience of group-work to complete set tasks, including giving group presentations.

- You will gain understanding of a range of practical and social skills relating to habitat management.

Syllabus

1 lecture to introduce the concept of habitat management, its principles and an introduction to a range of habitats in Yorkshire, including terrestrial (lowland and upland), freshwater and coastal.

10 field trips to protected sites and farmland across the region to introduce students to a range of habitat management issues faced by different UK stakeholders (public, NGO, private). .

Seminars delivered by invited speakers representing different types of stakeholder.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	6	1.50	9.00
Class tests, exams and assessment	1	3.00	3.00
Fieldwork	8	7.00	56.00
Private study hours			82.00
Total Contact hours			68.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			150.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Performance will largely be monitored by engagement with field trips.

- Feedback on the group oral presentations will be given rapidly after the presentations and will be directly relevant to the written report (executive summary).

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Group Project	Team project on regeneration scheme - oral presentation (max. 20 minutes including questions).	30.00
Report	Executive summary for a reserve management plan	70.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Re-sit for the group oral presentation to the class will be an individual oral presentation to the staff.

Reading list

There is no reading list for this module

Last updated: 20/09/2023

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