Level: III
Semester: 2
Number of Credits: 3
Anti-Requisite: BIOL 3464 Tropical Forestry Ecology and Management
Prerequisites: BIOL 2163 and BIOL 2464

 

Course Description 

This course is designed to expose students to the tropical forest ecology and how it influences the human use of tropical forests such as timber production and conservation. The course is organised into background lectures and tutorials covering general and specific concepts in tropical forest ecology and management. In tutorials students are expected to prepare, participate and perform in an active way in order to engage with the content. Assessment will be based largely on in course tests and a final theory exam.

 

Assessment

Coursework                  60%
Final Examination       40%
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