- Docente: Duccio Rocchini
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: BIO/03
- Lingua di insegnamento: Italiano
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Scienze e gestione della natura (cod. 9257)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
This course mainly focuses on the evaluation and monitoring of ecosystem changes related to human impact and global change. Examples related to agro-ecosystems, forests, high elevation ecosystems and freshwaters will be analyzed. Particular emphasis will be assigned to: 1) the mechanisms that link taxonomical and functional diversity to ecosystem functioning; 2) the role of species functional traits in determining the response of communities to environmental factors in a global change scenario; 3) biodiversity-related ecosystem services and their relationships with global change; 4) the use of bioindicators and biomonitoring techniques for evaluating anthropogenic impacts and the effects of global change on terrestrial ecosystems, including freshwaters. The course also includes practical and laboratory activities and some pills of scientific writing to support students in critical reading activities and in preparing a short report.
Contenuti
- The ABC of monitoring ecosystems
- Monitoring populations and population change in time: introduction to population ecology
- Monitoring communities: introduction to community ecology and community monitoring metrics
- Ecosystems' structure and functions: exploring the main ecosystem functions
- Basics of Conservation Biology: understanding environmental issues and their potential solutions
- Global change and monitoring at wide spatial scales
- Scale issues when dealing with spatial data: main issues relted to hierarchy theory and impacts of scale in spatial analysis
- Spatial statistics: deriving continuous maps from in-situ data, principles of autocorrelation and spatial interpolation
- Multitemporal analysis: monitoring change in time
- Species distribution modelling: modelling the main drivers shaping species distributions
- Introduction to the R Software and the Free and Open Source philosophy: how to deal with R making your first code!
- Remote sensing: performing amazing spatio-temporal monitoring with satellite data at global scales
- Geographical data and reference systems: how to deal with the spatial reference of geographical data
- GRASS GIS: a Free and Open Source Sofware for spatial data handling and analysis
Testi/Bibliografia
Campbell, N., Reece, J.B., Urry, L. (2014). Biology: A Global Approach, Global Edition, Pearson global edition.
Wegmann, M. (2016). Remote Sensing and GIS for Ecologists: Using Open Source Software. Pelagic Publishing.
Metodi didattici
Lectures and practical exercises.
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Test with multiple choices and flash interview.
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Free and Open Source Software. Free geographic and remote sensing data.
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Duccio Rocchini