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The EU will provide a scenario to which students will have to respond. The EU teaching team will represent the management of consulting firms responsible for conducting impact studies following a development project.

Students will play the roles of design office experts and will be required to conduct analyses of the project area. They will be required to provide a report on their impact assessment, in which they will identify environmental issues and rank them according to their importance. They will also be required to give an oral presentation of their studies.

The EU will consist of six 2-hour tutorials at the beginning of the semester, during which the following topics will be covered:

TD1: Presentation of the EU, presentation of what an impact assessment is and what is expected of such an assessment (this part will be carried out by a professional whose job is precisely to verify impact assessments), presentation of the status of the areas studied: ZNIEFF, Natura 2000.

TD2 to 6: Presentation of analysis methods for different groups of organisms (plants, arthropods, herpetofauna, avifauna and chiroptera, soil fauna, etc.).

For the rest of the EU, students will have to propose study protocols to estimate the potential impacts of the planned project. The protocols put in place will have to enable the impacts to be assessed as accurately as possible, and the studies will have to budget for their interventions. They will then have field sessions to implement their protocol, collect data and analyze it. The teaching team will mentor the groups to guide them in their work. They will write a thesis based on specifications provided by the teaching team. This deliverable must be supported by field data and data from the bibliography. They will defend their case before the teaching team in an oral presentation.

Several study areas were targeted in Montpellier to carry out the work: Triolet Campus, Mosson River, Vallet Park, Montpellier City Center, Meric Park, Banks of the Lez, Garrigues de la Lauze, etc.

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This EU is an initial approach to conservation science from the perspectives of different stakeholders:

- scientific approach: fundamental and practical approach to the conservation and restoration of populations and communities

- Societal approach : the role of scientists in managing species and ecological environments, and interactions with other conservation stakeholders (managers, local actors)

- Ethical approach : reflection on the values of biodiversity (quantifiable, preferential, normative) and their applications according to different models, placed in a historical context (mainly ecosystem services and sustainable development).

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This introductory course will build on the mathematical tools encountered throughout the bachelor's degree program, particularly in the Modeling of Living Systems: Theory course (S4 option), in order to provide an overview of the different approaches and techniques used in modeling living systems. All major families of mathematical models will be covered: static (optimization problems, game theory) and dynamic (extensions of the systems seen in S4, introduction to stochastic processes). The examples of applications of these models will be diverse, covering many biological systems as well as different levels of organization (metabolic, epidemiological, meta-community models, etc.). Particular attention will be paid to epistemological aspects (the contribution of modeling to the construction of theories in the life sciences) and practical aspects (identifiability, calibration, and parametric sensitivity on the one hand, numerical implementation/simulations on the other). Finally, it will be an opportunity for students to familiarize themselves with research topics involving modeling, developed in the Montpellier area.

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This course unit is structured around a professional inventory approach, during which students will be placed in real-life situations to showcase their naturalist skills. This will consist of fieldwork, with a focus on field supervision through SPS for project monitoring. In this respect, it follows the logic of the former CMI (Opus 4).

Eight groups of five students will work on cataloging a specific taxon as part of a clearly identified scientific issue. The study area will vary from year to year and will be chosen by the teaching team based on opportunities for collaboration with organizations interested in the proposed approach. The organizations being approached are:

- the Conservatory of Natural Areas of Languedoc Roussillon

- Lunaret Zoo, manager of the Lez nature reserve

- the city of Montpellier

The presentation will consist of a joint deliverable for the entire class, including a ranking of conservation issues. The management organizations for the areas studied will be invited to attend the presentations.

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The aim of this EU is to acquire, reinforce, and synthesize concepts and knowledge in evolutionary paleontology, sedimentology, and paleoecology, in order to apply them to the fossil world. Taken together, these concepts provide the keys to inferring the stratigraphic context and past environments in which extinct organisms lived.

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This course unit is structured around a professional inventory approach, during which students will be placed in real-life situations to showcase their naturalist skills. This will consist of fieldwork, with a focus on field supervision through SPS for project monitoring. In this respect, it follows the logic of the former CMI (Opus 4).

Eight groups of five students will work on cataloging a specific taxon as part of a clearly identified scientific issue. The study area will vary from year to year and will be chosen by the teaching team based on opportunities for collaboration with organizations interested in the proposed approach. The organizations being approached are:

- the Conservatory of Natural Areas of Languedoc Roussillon

- Lunaret Zoo, manager of the Lez nature reserve

- the city of Montpellier

The presentation will consist of a joint deliverable for the entire class, including a ranking of conservation issues. The management organizations for the areas studied will be invited to attend the presentations.

See the full page

The EU will provide a scenario to which students will have to respond. The EU teaching team will represent the management of consulting firms responsible for conducting impact studies following a development project.

Students will play the roles of design office experts and will be required to conduct analyses of the project area. They will be required to provide a report on their impact assessment, in which they will identify environmental issues and rank them according to their importance. They will also be required to give an oral presentation of their studies.

The EU will consist of six 2-hour tutorials at the beginning of the semester, during which the following topics will be covered:

TD1: Presentation of the EU, presentation of what an impact assessment is and what is expected of such an assessment (this part will be carried out by a professional whose job is precisely to verify impact assessments), presentation of the status of the areas studied: ZNIEFF, Natura 2000.

TD2 to 6: Presentation of analysis methods for different groups of organisms (plants, arthropods, herpetofauna, avifauna and chiroptera, soil fauna, etc.).

For the rest of the EU, students will have to propose study protocols to estimate the potential impacts of the planned project. The protocols put in place will have to enable the impacts to be assessed as accurately as possible, and the studies will have to budget for their interventions. They will then have field sessions to implement their protocol, collect data and analyze it. The teaching team will mentor the groups to guide them in their work. They will write a thesis based on specifications provided by the teaching team. This deliverable must be supported by field data and data from the bibliography. They will defend their case before the teaching team in an oral presentation.

Several study areas were targeted in Montpellier to carry out the work: Triolet Campus, Mosson River, Vallet Park, Montpellier City Center, Meric Park, Banks of the Lez, Garrigues de la Lauze, etc.

See the full page

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This EU is an initial approach to conservation science from the perspectives of different stakeholders:

- scientific approach: fundamental and practical approach to the conservation and restoration of populations and communities

- Societal approach : the role of scientists in managing species and ecological environments, and interactions with other conservation stakeholders (managers, local actors)

- Ethical approach : reflection on the values of biodiversity (quantifiable, preferential, normative) and their applications according to different models, placed in a historical context (mainly ecosystem services and sustainable development).

See the full page

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