BIOS5219 – Plant conservation

After completing the course you will:

• Be well acquainted with the most important factors threatening the world’s plant biodiversity
• Be able to conduct a simple red-list assessment and to suggest conservation measures for threatened species
• Know the most frequently used ways to measure and map biodiversity be able to use software for analyses and mapping
• Know the most important international legislations and agreements protecting plant biodiversity and be able to use them on relevant case studies

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures.

The courses BIOS5219 and BIOS9219 have joint admission and have a combined capacity of 6 students. Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:

1. PhD candidates and master students at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum. Master's students admitted to the master's program options "Biodiversity and Systematics" and "Ecology and Evolution" are given priority.

2. Other PhD candidates and visiting PhD candidates.

3. Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students.

Applicants are ranked by credits in each group; all applicants within 1st rank before applicants in 2nd etc. If admission is limited to a fixed number of participants, admission will be decided by drawing lots for students who are ranked equally.

• BIOS2200 – Botanical Diversity
• BIOS4216 – Evolution and Systematics of Organismal Groups: The Plant Kingdom

The main part of the teaching is given as an intensive course (two weeks) in Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya or Zimbabwe, with lectures, data labs and excursions.There will be a mandatory assignment. The field course and the assignment has to be completed and approved before the exam.

Attendance is mandatory for the first lecture. This also applies for those on the waiting list. You will lose your seat on the course if documentation for absence is not provided to the student administration studieinfo@ibv.uio.no prior to the first lecture.

As the teaching involves laboratory and/or field work, you should consider taking out a separate travel and personal risk insurance. Read about your insurance cover as a student.

A student who has completed compulsory instruction and coursework and has had these approved, is not entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework. A student who has been admitted to a course, but who has not completed compulsory instruction and coursework or had these approved, is entitled to repeat that instruction and coursework, depending on available capacity.

Written exam which counts 100% towards the final grade.

The field course and one mandatory assignment has to be completed and approved before the exam.

It will also be counted as one of the three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for the following course: BIOS9219 – Plant Conservation.

This course offers both postponed and resit of examination. Read more:

• Illness at exams / postponed exams
• Withdrawal during an examination / Resitting an examination