• ECTS

    4 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

Description

The UE will correspond to a situation to which the students will have to respond. The teaching team of the UE will represent the directions of engineering offices which are in charge of carrying out impact studies following a development project.

The students will play the role of experts from the study offices and will have to carry out analyses on the project area. They will have to provide a report of their impact study in which they will have identified the ecological stakes which they will have classified according to their importance. They will also have to present their studies orally.

The UE will be articulated around 6 sessions of TD of 2h at the beginning of the semester during which the following points will be approached:

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

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

For the remainder of the EU, students will be required to propose study protocols to estimate the potential impacts of the proposed project. The protocols set up will have to allow for the closest possible assessment of the impacts and the studies will have to budget their interventions. They will then have field sessions to set up their protocol, collect data and then analyze them. The pedagogical team will tutor the groups in order to guide them in their work. They will write a thesis based on a set of specifications provided by the educational team. This deliverable must be supported by field data and data from the bibliography. They will defend their file in front of the pedagogical team during an oral presentation.

Several study areas to carry out the work have been targeted in Montpellier: Triolet Campus, Mosson River, Parc de la Vallet, Montpellier Center, Parc Méric, Rives du Lez, Garrigues de la Lauze...

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Necessary pre-requisites

- Basics in ecology seen throughout the degree

- Basics in statistics seen throughout the degree

- Englishman

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Knowledge control

Test

Coefficient

Nb of hours

Nb of sessions

Organization (SDS or resp)

Written

 

 

 

 

Continuous control

100 %

 

1

Resp

TP

 

 

 

 

Oral

 

 

 

 

 

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Targeted competencies

- Basic field ecology

- Basis in sampling strategy

- Field technique

- Method of analysis

- Writing and synthesis

- Time management, initiative, group work

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