Unit BIO-ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS
- Course
- Natural and environmental sciences and technologies
- Study-unit Code
- A000864
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Matteo Pallottini
- Teachers
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- Matteo Pallottini
- Hours
- 42 ore - Matteo Pallottini
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2025
- Offered
- 2025/26
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- BIO/05
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Biological indicators and environmental quality indices. Biodiversity: management of areas of natural significance. Monitoring the biological quality of inland waters; biology of the main faunal groups of macroinvertebrates; and the relationship between larval deformities of chironomids (Insecta—Diptera) and contamination.
- Reference texts
- Check with the professor
- Educational objectives
- Training of the naturalist and biologist professional in the use of bio-ecological indicators for environmental quality assessment.
- Prerequisites
- None
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and laboratories
- Other information
- Attendance strongly recommended
- Learning verification modality
- Oral test
- Extended program
- Biological indicators and environmental quality indices. Diversity, similarity, and biotic indices. Biodiversity: management of areas of natural importance. Applications with surveys in natural environments. Procedures for monitoring the biological quality of inland waters. Biology of the main faunal groups of macroinvertebrates. Environmental quality indicator taxa. Procedures for applying biological indices. Macrobenthic sampling in rivers and lakes. Identification of macroinvertebrates in the laboratory. Application of biological indices. Macrobenthic community of inland waters: trophic roles and relationships with organic load. Application of the "Biological and ecological traits" method. Diptera-Chironomidae: incidence of the larval mouthparts deformities in relation to environmental contamination. Techniques for preparing stable head capsule preparations and assessment of deformity degree. Habitats Directive: invertebrates of European interest in the Natura 2000 sites in Umbria. Monitoring and environmental quality.
- Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- land and water animal life