Courses

SEE 626M: Ecological Principles and Biodiversity for Sustainability

• Lecture 1. Introduction to Ecology, Biodiversity, and Sustainability

• Lecture 2. Biodiversity – Organisation of the living world

• Lecture 3. Biodiversity – Economic valuation

• Lecture 4. Ecological interactions

• Handout1-4 Quiz 1 on Hello IITK portal.

• Lecture 5. Introduction to Behavioural Ecology

• Lecture 6. Ecological Energetics – Introduction, food chains, food webs, and trophic levels

• Lecture 7. Ecological Energetics – Biogeographical cycles

• Lecture 8. Population Ecology – Growth and regulation of populations

• Handout5-8 Quiz 2 on Hello IITK portal.

• Lecture 9. Community changes and ecological succession

• Lecture 10. Biogeography and geographical distributions

• Lecture 11. Biogeography – Push and pull factors

• Lecture 12. Human Ecology – Introduction and impacts in anthropocene

• Handout9-12 Quiz 3 on Hello IITK portal.

• Lecture 13. Human population growth and requirements

• Lecture 14. Threats to biodiversity and ecology

• Lecture 15. Case studies – Impacts of oil spills

• Lecture 16. Case study – Impact of plastics on Ecology and Biodiversity

• Handout13-16 Quiz 4 on Hello IITK portal.

• Lecture 17. Climate change and its impacts on Ecology and Biodiversity

• Lecture 18. Conservation of biodiversity – In situ conservation

• Lecture 19. Conservation of biodiversity – Ex situ conservation

• Lecture 20. Employing Ecology and Biodiversity for sustainable development

• Handout17-20 Quiz 5 on Hello IITK portal.

Other courses

• Forests and their management

• Wildlife Ecology

• Conservation Geography

• Conservation Economics

• Wildlife Conservation

• Forest Biometry