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• Week -1 Biodiversity: Introduction to Biodiversity
• Week-2 Biodiversity of Pakistan
• Week 3 Threats to Biodiversity
• Week-4 Measuring biodiversity: Alpha, Beta and Gamma diversity; Systematic and functional diversity.
• Week-5 Ecological services, indirect value of ecosystem by virtue of their ecological functions, direct value of ecosystem (i.e. Utility of Bio resources)
• Week-6 Sustainable and unsustainable use of biological resources
• Week-7 Biodiversity Hot spots of Pakistan and the world
• Week-8 Convention on Biological Diversity
• Week 9 Mid Term Examinations
• Week-10 CITES, Ramsar
• Week: 11 Conservation strategies; in situ, ex situ, in vitro conservation
• Week-12 IUCN categorized protected areas in Pakistan; red listing
• Week-13 Environmental Impact Assessment
• Week: 14 Use of herbarium and Botanical Garden in biodiversity and conservation
• Week 15 Concept of pastures and wild life management.
• Week 16 Global Biodiversity Information Facility
• Week 17 Role of Floristic diversity in Biodiversity Conservation
• Week 18 Final Term Examinations