ECTS
2 credits
Component
Faculty of Science
Description
"Darwin Field School" takes place over a week with the following objectives:
- Create a group dynamic and integration in the Master 2 DARWIN-BEE class.
- Analyze ecological issues in their technical, scientific and social dimensions (for example: reintroduction operations).
- To address the issues of biodiversity management in a humanized protected area.
- Oral presentation and confrontation of results to an assembly; assessment of the course.
Activities in Florac :
- Discover the landscapes of the Causse Méjean.
- Understand the specificities of the missions of the Cevennes National Park and its scientific policy of knowledge acquisition.
- Study the example of vultures in the Causses, the capercaillie and the beaver in the PNC, and the chamois in the Gorges du Tarn.
- Practice personal work in 3 sub-groups on different scientific and ethical themes.
Activities around Montpellier :
- To study bird migration and the ecosystems of the Mediterranean coastline.
- Practicing urban ecology.
- Discover the fauna of the Mediterranean scrublands, with daytime hikes along the Buèges (discovery of entomofauna) and evening hikes (bat and/or moth and nocturnal orthopterans evening)."
Knowledge control
Final test: 100%.
Additional information
Hourly volumes* :
CM : 0 h
TD : 3 h
TP : 0 h
Field : 12 h
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SPS : 0 h
Seminars : 0 h
Outside UM : 0 h