Protecting Mountain Biodiversity

Ipromo Course 2010

The overall purpose of the third summer IPROMO course is to provide post-graduate students, researchers and technicians with scientific knowledge and better understanding of the importance of protecting mountain biodiversity and to enhance their ability to assess potential ecological and social impacts of different management policies. It is particularily aimed at those coming from areas characterised by degraded and overexploited mountain ecosystems in particular from developing countries.

The course will focus on: significance of mountain biodiversity, land use and climate change effects on mountain biodiversity, large scale patterns (latitudinal and altitudinal) of mountain biodiversity (including invasive species, recent facts and research results on mountain biodiversity and protected areas, biological corridors and transboundary agreements and their role in protecting mountain biodiversity.