The Principles of Range course explains the concept and terminology of rangeland science and the most important related sciences. The student can identify the most important pastoral plants, their degree of palatability, their distribution, and their pastoral, environmental and economic importance. The course also reviews the most important methods for estimating the pastoral load and its impact on preserving pastoral resources, and enumerates the causes of poor distribution of livestock and the most important grazing systems used in the world, and what is appropriate for the local environment.
Bypass successfully this course, the student should be able to:
a. Knowledge and understanding:
b. Mental skills:
c. Scientific and professional skills:
d. Generic and transferable skills
