Course10210407336 lectures
Wild Life Ecology
Prof. Ankur Awadhiya · IIT Kanpur
About
Wildlife is an enamouring field for most of us. In my professional tenure, I've observed numerous people flocking to get a glimpse of the tiger, to get an opportunity of diving with the fishes, or to get access to a National Park or a Wildlife Sanctuary. And these experiences gets even more endearing when you get to know how the show is getting managed, how and why we regulate access, and also how we maintain grasslands and water bodies to keep the systems up and running. This course will cover one such aspect of wildlife management by providing an overview of the field of Ecology, and also how it is being used in the understanding and management of our wildlife resources. In this course, we'll use the casestudy approach with real-life examples from the field to get a better understanding of the field and its applications.
INTENDED AUDIENCE : Officers and staff of Forest departments, Studentsof Forestry, Wildlife conservation and allieddisciplines, Policy makers
PREREQUISITES : Has cleared 10+2 with science
INDUSTRY SUPPORT : Tourism industries, Education industries, Green energy industries, Renewable energy / materials industry
Lectures
Week 1 : Introduction
- Lecture 1: Introduction to the Course
- Lecture 2: A Historical Overview of Ecology
- Lecture 3: Ecology and Evolution
Week 2
- Lecture 4: The levels of Organization
- Lecture 5: Species Abundabce and Composition: Biodiversity
- Lecture 6: Biodiversity-II
Week 3
- Lecture 7: Positive Interactions
- Lecture 8: Negative Interactions
- Lecture 9: Study of Behaviour and Behavioral Ecology
Week 4
- Lecture 10: Food chains, Food webs and Trophic levels
- Lecture 11: Primary Production
- Lecture 12: Nutrient Cycles
Week 5
- Lecture 13: Population Paremeters and Demographic Techniques
- Lecture 14: Population Growth and Regulation
- Lecture 15: Population Studies and Applications
Week 6
- Lecture 16: Community Nature and Parameters
- Lecture 17: Community Changes and Ecological Succession
- Lecture 18: Community Organization
Week 7
- Lecture 19: Biography: Analysis of Geographic Distributions
- Lecture 20: Why are things where they are?
- Lecture 21: Some Push and Pull factors in greater detail
Week 8
Week 9
- Lecture 25: Introduction and Impacts
- Lecture 26: Human Population Growth and Food requirements
- Lecture 27: Sustainable Development
Week 10
Week 11
- Lecture 31: Optimum Yield Problem
- Lecture 32: Biological Control
- Lecture 33: Ecotoxicology and pollution management, Restoration Ecology
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kanpur
- Department
- Multidisciplinary
- Teacher
- Prof. Ankur Awadhiya
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Biology
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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