832309 Current contributions in wildlife research and wildlife management


Type
Seminar
Semester hours
2
Lecturer (assistant)
Kunz, Florian , Knufinke, Jörg Fabian
Organisation
Offered in
Sommersemester 2025
Languages of instruction
Deutsch

Content

New challenges and topics of wildlife research; presentation and discussion of research fields and projects, including those on wildlife management and wildlife monitoring

Students present the content of a current paper in 20 minutes. Background, research questions, methods, results and discussion are reviewed and discussed.

Previous knowledge expected

Previous knowledge in wildlife ecology and management, as well as in common methods, at the level of advanced master students.

Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)

Students passing the seminar are capable to judge scientific quality of wildlife research. They know criteria for standardized, transparent and representative scientific work. Students are able to analyse the quality of published data and know quality thresholds for scientific publications. In addition, students are able to collect scientific literature from various sources, know how to reduce scientific findings to the main outline and have improved skills to present scientific data.
You can find more details like the schedule or information about exams on the course-page in BOKUonline.