Course Material
- 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
- Chapters 18
- Department Botany
- Teacher
Dr. Kafeel Ahmad