Unit ECOLOGY II
- Course
- Biological sciences
- Study-unit Code
- 55998106
- Curriculum
- Ambientale - naturalistico
- Teacher
- Gianandrea La Porta
- Teachers
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- Gianandrea La Porta
- Hours
- 42 ore - Gianandrea La Porta
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2018
- Offered
- 2020/21
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- BIO/07
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- The course is planned as an insight of the Ecology I course. It is divided into three parts: evolutionary ecology, ecosystems and biodiversity, and ecological networks. The course comprises a practical part focused on the analysis of environmental and ecological data
- Reference texts
- Smith T & Smith R, 2013. Elementi di Ecologia, Pearson Editore¿¿
Battisti C, 2004. Frammentazione ambientale connettività reti ecologiche, Provincia di Roma¿¿
Manuale utente di QGIS (qgis.org) - Educational objectives
- Aims:¿- knowledge acquisition of scientific basis of ecology for the comprehension of the relationships between species and environment ¿¿- skill acquisition in the environmental analysis and inference on the species suitability¿¿- communication skills in scientific contexts
- Prerequisites
- Basic concepts of ecology are important for a better comprehension of the course topics.
- Teaching methods
- The course will be taught with oral frontal lessons. Practical activities and computer simulations will be also implemented.
- Other information
- Attendance: Facultative, but advised
- Learning verification modality
- Oral exam, integrated with the results of students' seminars on topics regarding the teaching course.
- Extended program
- Part I. Evolutionary ecology: natural selection and ecological adaptation. Group selection hypothesis. Speciation. Optimization theory. Coevolution and Mimicry.¿¿Part II. Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems: biodiversity and its conservation. Quantitative aspects of biodiversity. Factors affecting Biodiversity. Ecosystem services.¿¿Part III. Ecological networks. Habitat fragmentation and connectivity. Network properties and its functional and structural elements. Concept and scales of definition. Geographical information systems.