Courses / Module

• Outline pressures on ecosystem function and identify their influence on natural habitats and biodiversity.
• Associate the effects of water and pollinator shortages, fertiliser and chemical deposits in the environment and the widespread introduction of genetically modified organisms with ecosystem pressures.
• Illustrate post-WWII land use intensification and future demands on natural resources and relate these to changes in ecosystem pressures using case studies.
• Connect the changes in specific environmental stressors with modification of wild population structure and biodiversity, and how these stressors might ultimately affect such ecosystem services like water purification, food production, biological pest control, pollination, soil conservation and carbon sequestration.

• Module Graded (numeric value) or Ungraded (Pass/Not Passed): Graded
• Continuous Assessment detail(s): 50% of the module mark will be based on an end-of-module Open Book exam.

• Pass standard: 40%
• Could the result of this module be capped? No

• Are supplemental/resit registrations permitted? Yes
• Students may opt to do supplemental continuous assessment over the summer for part of the CA marks only (details will normally be posted on the GY317 Moodle page, but students should also contact the lecturer). The CAs comprise study exercises and one substantive piece of work. Only the substantive piece of work can be repeated; students will have to surrender any continuous assessment marks earned for this piece over the regular lecturing year if they opt to repeat this CA component. Only those students who have officially registered to repeat/resit their module in the autumn will be allowed to submit supplemental continuous assessment.
• Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment registration permitted? Yes
• Is Supplemental Continuous Assessment capped? No

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