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Lecture 01: Course Introduction: Why Biodiversity for Sustainability?
Prof. Ankur Awadhiya · IIT Kanpur
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All the lectures
- Lecture 01: Course Introduction: Why Biodiversity for Sustainability?
- Lecture 02: What is Ecology? The Scientific Foundation
- Lecture 03: What is Biodiversity? Forms and Levels of Organization
- Lecture 04: What is Sustainability?
- Lecture 05: Linking Ecology, Biodiversity and Sustainability
- Lecture 06: Historic Evolution of Sustainable Development
- Lecture 07: The Three Pillars in Practice
- Lecture 08: Ecosystem Services and Human Well-being
- Lecture 09: Sustainability Metrics, Indicators and Boundaries
- Lecture 10: Sustainable Development Case Discussions
- Lecture 11: Human Population Growth, Consumption and Ecological Pressure
- Lecture 12: Habitat Destruction
- Lecture 13: Overexploitation of Biological Resources
- Lecture 14: Invasive Alien Species as a Modern Threat
- Lecture 15: Pollution: Air, Water, Soil, Noise and Light
- Lecture 16: Climate Change and Biodiversity
- Lecture 17: Ocean Acidification, Desertification and Altered biogeochemical cycles
- Lecture 18: Population decline and Extinction - 1
- Lecture 19: Population decline and Extinction - 2
- Lecture 20: Role of Humans
- Lecture 21: Why Coexistence Matters
- Lecture 22: Ecological Benefits of Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Landscapes
- Lecture 23: Economic and Livelihood benefits of Coexistence
- Lecture 24: Social, Cultural, Educational and Health Benefits
- Lecture 25: Human-Wildlife Conflict to Human-Wildlife Coexistence
- Lecture 26: Species Concepts
- Lecture 27: Biological Diversity
- Lecture 28: Distribution and Abundance
- Lecture 29: Wildlife Habitats
- Lecture 30: Study of Behaviour
- Lecture 31: Do we need numbers?
- Lecture 32: Precision and Accuracy
- Lecture 33: Wildlife Census
- Lecture 34: Wildlife Sampling
- Lecture 35: Distance Sampling and Transects
- Lecture 36: What is Genetics
- Lecture 37: Genetics of Wildlife Populations
- Lecture 38: Population Viability Analysis
- Lecture 39: Genetic Disorders and Inbreeding
- Lecture 40: Reintroductions and Outbreeding
- Lecture 41: Diseases and their Classification - 1
- Lecture 42: Diseases and their Classification - 2
- Lecture 43: Principles of Disease Management
- Lecture 44: Wildlife Diseases and their Management - 1
- Lecture 45: Wildlife Diseases and their Management - 2
- Lecture 46: Principles of Biodiversity Management
- Lecture 47: Ex situ Conservation
- Lecture 48: In situ Conservation
- Lecture 49: Designer Sanctuaries - 1
- Lecture 50: Designer Sanctuaries - 2
- Lecture 51: Capturing and Handling Wildlife - 1
- Lecture 52: Capturing and Handling Wildlife - 2
- Lecture 53: Habitat Improvement
- Lecture 54: Management of Wildfires
- Lecture 55: Plastics
- Lecture 56: Oil Spills
- Lecture 57: Case Study: Linear Infrastructure
- Lecture 58: Economic Valuation
- Lecture 59: How to Think Like a Biodiversity Professional
- Lecture 60: Final Recap and Conclusion