Module overview
This module will explore how climate change and other anthropogenic activities are affecting life on earth. It will detail scientific research spanning disciplines and allow students to form arguments and interrogate the primary literature for evidence to back up their claims.
The module begins by introducing how researchers detect biodiversity, from surveys and drones to sequencing environmental DNA. We then explore evidence that the climate is changing, and what the consequences are for animals and plants, both individually and as parts of networks and ecosystems. Building on this, we then investigate evidence that climate change and an increasing population are changing agriculture across the world, with implications for food security, a well as how researchers are trying to combat this challenge. We then wrap up the module thinking about how researchers have responsibilities to carry out ethical, inclusive and equitable research.
Linked modules
new Y1 module compulsory for all Biology and Zoology students, not available to others.