There are no pre-requisites for this module to be added

The module will present 3 case studies within wildlife management and conservation. Case-studies will be introduced with a lecture that gives the background to a conservation/management issue and the techniques that could be utilised to provide new information. Each case-study will have computer practicals during which you will be presented with a dataset that is either from, similar to, or a subset from the appropriate case-study. Guest lecturers will then speak to you about how that approach, and related approaches are used in real world contexts. Case-studies will cover a range of management issues, and will be based on real scenarios that can be drawn from research experience of staff or drawn from the literature. Indicative areas are: assessing the impacts of predator removal on nest success of birds, assessment of space use by marine species in designing marine protected areas, and using camera-trap surveying to identify protected mammal den sites.

Upon completion of this module you will be able to

LO1: Evaluate ways in which wildlife management problems are identified and framed, and how this relates to generating study aims and testable hypotheses.

LO2: Defend the need for, and means of, obtaining high quality data in wildlife management and perform appropriate analyses on wildlife data.

LO3: Demonstrate ability to present data and analytical results clearly and concisely to a professional standard.

LO4: Competently derive management and further research recommendations based on the results from data analysis.