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The course will consist of a scenario that students will be required to address. The course faculty will represent the management teams of engineering firms responsible for conducting impact studies following a development project.

Students will take on the roles of experts from engineering firms and will be required to conduct analyses of the project area. They must submit a report on their environmental impact study, in which they will identify environmental issues and rank them by importance. They must also give an oral presentation of their study.

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

Session 1: Overview of the EU; explanation of what an environmental impact assessment is and what is expected of such an assessment (this portion will be led by a professional whose job is specifically to review environmental impact assessments); overview of the designations of the areas under study: ZNIEFF, Natura 2000.

TD2–6: Overview of analytical methods for various groups of organisms (plants, arthropods, reptiles and amphibians, birds and bats, soil fauna, etc.).

For the rest of the EU, students will be required to propose research protocols that allow for an estimation of the potential impacts of the proposed project. The protocols put in place must enable the most accurate possible assessment of these impacts, and the research teams must include a budget for their activities. They will then have field sessions to implement their protocols, collect data, and analyze it. The faculty team will mentor the groups to guide them in their work. Students will write a thesis based on a set of guidelines provided by the faculty team. This final project must be supported by field data and data from the literature. Students will present and defend their work before the faculty team during an oral presentation.

Several study areas in Montpellier were identified for the project: Triolet Campus, Mosson River, Vallet Park, Downtown Montpellier, Méric Park, Lez Riverbanks, Lauze Garrigues…

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This learning unit provides an introductory overview of conservation science from the perspectives of various stakeholders:

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

- societal approach : the role of scientists in the management of species and ecological habitats, and their interactions with other conservation stakeholders (managers, local stakeholders)

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

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This introductory course will build on the mathematical tools covered throughout the bachelor’s program—and particularly in the “Modeling Living Systems: Theory” course (a fourth-semester elective)—to provide an overview of the various approaches and techniques used in modeling living systems. All major families of mathematical models will be covered: static models (optimization problems, game theory) as well as dynamic models (extensions of the systems studied in S4, introduction to stochastic processes). Examples of applications for these models will be diverse, covering numerous biological systems as well as different levels of organization (metabolic, epidemiological, and metacommunity models, among others). Particular attention will be given to epistemological aspects (the contributions of modeling to the development of theories in the life sciences) and practical aspects (identifiability, calibration, and parametric sensitivity on the one hand, and numerical implementation and simulations on the other). Finally, the course will provide students with an opportunity to become familiar with research topics involving modeling that are being developed in the Montpellier area.

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This course unit is structured around a professional assessment approach in which students will be placed in real-world situations to demonstrate their naturalist skills. It will consist of a field study, with a primary focus on field supervision through SPS for project monitoring. In this regard, it follows the approach of the former CMI (Opus 4).

Eight groups of five students will work on conducting a survey of a specific taxon as part of a clearly defined scientific research project. The study area will vary from year to year and will be selected by the teaching team based on opportunities for collaboration with organizations interested in the proposed approach. The organizations being considered are:

- the Languedoc-Roussillon Conservatory of Natural Areas

- Lunaret Zoo, which manages the Lez Nature Reserve

- the Montpellier metropolitan area

The presentation will consist of a joint report for the entire class, including a prioritization of conservation issues. The agencies responsible for managing the study areas will be invited to attend the presentations.

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The goal of this course unit is to acquire, reinforce, and synthesize concepts and knowledge in evolutionary paleontology, sedimentology, and paleoecology, and to apply them to the fossil record. 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 assessment approach in which students will be placed in real-world situations to demonstrate their naturalist skills. It will consist of a field study, with a primary focus on field supervision through SPS for project monitoring. In this regard, it follows the approach of the former CMI (Opus 4).

Eight groups of five students will work on conducting a survey of a specific taxon as part of a clearly defined scientific research project. The study area will vary from year to year and will be selected by the teaching team based on opportunities for collaboration with organizations interested in the proposed approach. The organizations being considered are:

- the Languedoc-Roussillon Conservatory of Natural Areas

- Lunaret Zoo, which manages the Lez Nature Reserve

- the Montpellier metropolitan area

The presentation will consist of a joint report for the entire class, including a prioritization of conservation issues. The agencies responsible for managing the study areas will be invited to attend the presentations.

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The course will consist of a scenario that students will be required to address. The course faculty will represent the management teams of engineering firms responsible for conducting impact studies following a development project.

Students will take on the roles of experts from engineering firms and will be required to conduct analyses of the project area. They must submit a report on their environmental impact study, in which they will identify environmental issues and rank them by importance. They must also give an oral presentation of their study.

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

Session 1: Overview of the EU; explanation of what an environmental impact assessment is and what is expected of such an assessment (this portion will be led by a professional whose job is specifically to review environmental impact assessments); overview of the designations of the areas under study: ZNIEFF, Natura 2000.

TD2–6: Overview of analytical methods for various groups of organisms (plants, arthropods, reptiles and amphibians, birds and bats, soil fauna, etc.).

For the rest of the EU, students will be required to propose research protocols that allow for an estimation of the potential impacts of the proposed project. The protocols put in place must enable the most accurate possible assessment of these impacts, and the research teams must include a budget for their activities. They will then have field sessions to implement their protocols, collect data, and analyze it. The faculty team will mentor the groups to guide them in their work. Students will write a thesis based on a set of guidelines provided by the faculty team. This final project must be supported by field data and data from the literature. Students will present and defend their work before the faculty team during an oral presentation.

Several study areas in Montpellier were identified for the project: Triolet Campus, Mosson River, Vallet Park, Downtown Montpellier, Méric Park, Lez Riverbanks, Lauze Garrigues…

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This learning unit provides an introductory overview of conservation science from the perspectives of various stakeholders:

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

- societal approach : the role of scientists in the management of species and ecological habitats, and their interactions with other conservation stakeholders (managers, local stakeholders)

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

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