Media Storage Type : 32 GB USB Stick
NPTEL Subject Matter Expert : Dr. Ankur Awadhiya
NPTEL Co-ordinating Institute : IIT Kanpur
NPTEL Lecture Count : 40
NPTEL Course Size : 13 GB
NPTEL PDF Text Transcription : Available and Included
NPTEL Subtitle Transcription : Available and Included (SRT)
Lecture Titles:
Lecture 1 - Preliminaries
Lecture 2 - A closer look at Biodiversity
Lecture 3 - Economics Valuation of Biodiversity
Lecture 4 - Threats to Biodiversity
Lecture 5 - Preliminaries
Lecture 6 - Basics of Sampling
Lecture 7 - Distance Sampling - I
Lecture 8 - Distance Sampling - II
Lecture 9 - Radio-telemetry
Lecture 10 - Behavioural monitoring
Lecture 11 - What is a habitat
Lecture 12 - Habitat degradation, loss, fragmentation and displacement
Lecture 13 - Reserve selection and design
Lecture 14 - Habitat management and improvement
Lecture 15 - Some terminologies
Lecture 16 - Some common wildlife diseases
Lecture 17 - Principles of disease management
Lecture 18 - Preliminaries
Lecture 19 - Mechanical capture
Lecture 20 - Chemical capture
Lecture 21 - Capture myopathy
Lecture 22 - Care of immobilised animal
Lecture 23 - Legal aspects of capture and restraint
Lecture 24 - Other topics in capture and restraint
Lecture 25 - Preliminaries and introduction to genetics
Lecture 26 - Population genetics
Lecture 27 - Chromosomal and genetic disorders, inbreeding
Lecture 28 - Population viability analysis
Lecture 29 - Reintroductions and outbreeding
Lecture 30 - Fundamentals
Lecture 31 - Zoos and their management
Lecture 32 - Botanical gardens
Lecture 33 - Other aspects: cryopreservation, seed banks, etc.
Lecture 34 - Impacts of climate change
Lecture 35 - Plastics and biodiversity
Lecture 36 - Oil spills
Lecture 37 - Crisis and learnings: The Sariska case-study
Lecture 38 - Revision - I
Lecture 39 - Revision - II
Lecture 40 - Revision - III