ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: External department linked to the degrees
Areas: Área externa M. U. en Biodiversidad Terrestre: Caracterización, Conservación y Gestión
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
• Ability to identify the main components, natural and anthropogenic, of global change
• Ability to identify the impacts and adaptations to climate changes
• Ability to identify, evaluate and foresee the effects of environmental changes on biodiversity at all levels (species, habitats, ecosystems, landscape and social and economic aspects)
• Ability to understand, apply and develop methodologies to evaluate and mitigate environmental changes
• Capacity to correctly apply the international and national Directives and regulations (IPCC, Climate Action, Spanish Environmental Evaluation 21/2013, etc.)
• Ability to identify the effects of climatic variables on the soil carbon balance
• Ability to evaluate the contribution of soils to carbon sequestration
• Ability to develop strategies to increase the carbon retention potential by soils
Theoretical topics:
1. Introduction to Global Change: Scales and components of global change
2. General trends of global change. IPCC scenarios and International Protocols
3. Evidences of global change on terrestrial ecosystems: responsible factors for the observed biodiversity changes; extinctions and adaptations
4. Evidences of global change on terrestrial ecosystems: climate change effects on the different biomes
5. Evidences of global change on terrestrial ecosystems: changes in atmospheric composition; biogeochemical changes; sources and sinks
6. Long-term perspectives: global changes in the past
Other activities (practices, seminars, tutorials)
Practical activities: analysis and interpretation of climate data and proxies. Sustainable scalable methods of mitigation and adaptation.
Basic References
Canadell, Josep G., Pataki, Diane E., Pitelka, Louis F. (Eds.), Terrestrial Ecosystems in a Changing World, Springer, 2007
Jiménez Herrero (Dir.) (2011). Biodiversidad en España. Bases de la Sostenibilidad ante el Cambio Global. Observatorio de la Sostenibilidad en España. Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino. 503 pp.
Further reading
IPCC, Global Warming of 1.5 ºC, 2018
IPCC (2019a). Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems [P.R. Shukla, et al., (eds.)]. In press.
Websites:
Estratexia Galega de Cambio Climático e Enerxía 2050 Website [En línea]: [Consulta en enero de 2020].
EU Climate Action Website [En línea]: [Consulta en enero de 2020].
Global Climate Change Website [En línea]: [Consulta en enero de 2020].
IPCC Website [En línea]: [Consulta en enero de 2020].
IPCC Reports Website [En línea]: [Consulta en enero de 2020].
OECC Website [En línea]: [Consulta en enero de 2020].
BASIC AND GENERAL SKILLS
CG01 - Acquisition of analysis capacity on current and future situation of terrestrial biodiversity.
CG02 - Use of appropriate terminology for the field of terrestrial biodiversity.
CG03 - Use of information sources and databases to contribute to analyses and to generate specific information for the area of terrestrial biodiversity.
CB6 – Acquire and understand knowledge that provide a basis or opportunity to be novel in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.
CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgements from some information that, despite being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments and without ambiguities.
TRANSVERSAL SKILLS
CT2 – Ability for reasoning, argumentation and decision making.
CT4 - Ability to obtain adequate, diverse and updated information in different languages.
CT5- Commitment to provide accurate information to others.
CT6 - Ability to solve problems through integrated application of the acquired knowledge.
SPECIFIC SKILLS
CE10 – To identify, assess and foresee the effects of two environmental changes on the different components of terrestrial biodiversity.
Lecture-explanation: Presentation of the theoretical contents, providing basic information necessary to understand a theoretical perspective or a practical procedure, promoting student participation.
Practical cases: The cases can refer to any of the components of global change and require the critical analysis of recent literature as well as the interpretation of data and proxies, with the support and supervision of the teaching staff.
Description Qualification
Lectures Participation and critical and reasoned arguments 30%
Presentation of a practical case
Public defence and debating skills 70%
Hours Presence percentage (%)
Lectures 7 100
Interactive classes 14 100
Tutorials 1 100
Exam 2 100
Self-directed learning 51
Total hours of work 75
| Monday | |||
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| 09:30-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |
| Tuesday | |||
| 09:30-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |
| Wednesday | |||
| 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |
| Thursday | |||
| 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |
| Friday | |||
| 12:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | - | Seminar Room 4 Jacques Ives Cousteau |