Biodiversity Conservation and Evolution

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This Masters programme approaches biodiversity from different perspectives, providing interdisciplinary training.

Realistic strategies are fundamental in order to know, measure, make inventories of, preserve, and manage biodiversity (Rio Conference, 1992), its origin, changes, functions, populations, species, and supra-specific taxa, the processes and factors influencing its evolution, adaptation and diversity, with the use of new modelling and instrumentation techniques. The course is inscribed in the "Life Sciences" and "Agro-food and Environmental Sciences and Technologies" areas, and the "Fundamental Biology", "Environmental Sciences and Technologies", and "Biodiversity, Earth Sciences, and Global Change" national research programmes.

It is targeted at those holding degrees or diplomas in biology, geology, environmental sciences, geography,

Addressed to: Graduates and diplomats in Biology, Environmental Sciences, Agronomy and Forestry, Natural Resources, and other related disciplines.Admission: In general terms, the criteria and procedures for master qualifications established by the University of Valencia will be observed . At the individual level, the Academic Commission will inform each student on the subjects to take -if applicable prior to the level course, for the different itineraries, or -on the contrary- he/she will be informed about complete or partial exemption to take the mentioned course due to his/her previous background.