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Demonstrate a general understanding of how DNA (and RNA) based methods contribute to many areas of ecology, including the identification of species for wildlife management and forensic purposes, conservation biology, behavioural ecology, the study of dispersal on historical and contemporary timescales, management of captive breeding to rescue and support wild populations
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BIOL 3042
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Describe the use of key conservation policy initiatives, such as the IUCN Red List and Protected Area categories
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BIOL 3065
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Develop familiarity with how science is translated into policy, the history of global conservation efforts, and the governmental, non-governmental, and inter-governmental bodies involved in implementing policy
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BIOL 3065
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Explain the importance of Marine/Coastal conservation
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BIOL 2605
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Explain why small population size is of concern to conservation biologists
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BIOL 1011
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Identify key ecological and coastal issues in Nova Scotia
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BIOL 3623
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Outline the history of marine exploitation in eastern Canada
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BIOL 2605
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Recall the general biology of marine mammal taxa
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BIOL 3090
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Understand concepts of fragmentation and edge influence.
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BIOL 3066
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Demonstrate critical and independent thinking skills to understand coastal policies and action plans in Nova Scotia
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BIOL 3623
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Describe anthropogenic impacts affecting intertidal habitats
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BIOL 3664
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Describe conservation issues facing taxonomic and functional groups of metazoans
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BIOL 2003
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Describe the differences and similarities between marine and terrestrial mammals and their relative ecological importance
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BIOL 3090
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Understand how social systems have evolved, the types of social systems in marine mammals and the evolution of mating strategies as an example of a social system Describe the influence of social structure on vocal categories
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BIOL 3090
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Understand the concepts and role genetics plays in conservation of marine mammals
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BIOL 3090
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Understand the origins, taxonomic diversity, structure and ecological importance of the marine mammal orders and families
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BIOL 3090
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Associate metazoan phyla with the habitats/environments that they occupy
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BIOL 2003
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Evaluate scientific data, opinions and theories with respect to a scientific or conservation question.
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BIOL 3090
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Explain the fundamental principles and ethics of resource management and conservation
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BIOL 3063
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Identify bird species at risk in Nova Scotia.
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BIOL 3622
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Make recommendations for future research and conservation efforts
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BIOL 3622
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Understand the basics of biological conservation and how it is achieved.
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BIOL 3601
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Apply behavioural ecology to problems in animal conservation
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BIOL 3062
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Appreciate how agroforestry innovations can make positive impacts on economy and environment.
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BIOL 3634
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Be able to clearly articulate the science in key conservation debates, both orally through presentations, and in written form
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BIOL 3065
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Compare the political versus the apolitical approaches to environment
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BIOL 4160
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Define inbreeding and inbreeding depression
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BIOL 3042
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Define supportive breeding and domestication selection and understand the potential consequences of supportive breeding for the maintenance of genetic diversity
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BIOL 3042
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Demonstrate awareness that science, law and politics play an important role in the conservation and management of marine mammals, threats they face and mitigation options
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BIOL 3090
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Describe opportunities for employment and cash income generated through agroforestry systems.
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BIOL 3634
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Describe the concept of effective population size (Ne), its importance in population and conservation biology, and the different ways in which it is estimated
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BIOL 3042
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Discuss the genetics of invasive species
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BIOL 3042
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Identify and discuss conservation issues relevant to birds.
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BIOL 3622
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Identify roles of invertebrates in ecosystems and relationships that human have with invertebrates
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BIOL 3301
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Interpret the consequences of climate change on ecosystems and communities, including unexpected and unintuitive consequences, and explain how conservation planning should take climate change into account
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BIOL 3065
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Outline how genetics can be used for fisheries management and forensic purposes
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BIOL 3042
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Produce an independent project researching the biology, population status, exploitation history, management and conservation of a resource species
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BIOL 3063
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Provide examples of the key threats to biodiversity, and the causes and consequences of those threats
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BIOL 3065
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Relate environmental conservation to agroforestry systems.
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BIOL 3634
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Understand sound propagation in water, fundamental sound component analysis (e.g. amplitude, frequency), sound production and receiving mechanisms in various marine mammal taxa and the impacts harmful sound can have on populations
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BIOL 3090
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Understand the key concepts behind population viability analysis
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BIOL 3065
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Understand the meaning of life history and the life history characteristics of cetaceans and pinniped and the factors that shape their evolution
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BIOL 3090
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Understand the use of both deterministic and stochastic models in conservation biology, and the appropriate and inappropriate use of models
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BIOL 3065
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Diagram causality between the local and global levels in Political Ecology case studies using a chain of explanation model
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BIOL 4160
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