- Docente: Marco Abbiati
- Crediti formativi: 6
- SSD: BIO/07
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Moduli: Marco Abbiati (Modulo 1) Erik Caroselli (Modulo 2) Erik Caroselli (Modulo 3)
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza (Modulo 1) Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza (Modulo 2) Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza (Modulo 3)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Laurea Magistrale in Low carbon technologies and sustainable chemistry (cod. 9246)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
The course is aimed at the comprehension of the functioning of ecosystems: basic processes, biogeochemical cycles; the emerging characteristics of ecosystems: spatio-temporal variability, resistance, resilience and homeostasis; the tools for the quantitative analysis of ecosystems; the meaning of biodiversity: ecosystem processes, goods and services; anthropological alterations and response of natural systems; the meaning of mitigation measures; the concept of ecological risk and assessment tools based on the integration of lines of evidence (chemical, physical, ecotoxicological and ecological) through the application of tools for the weighted assessment of alterations.
Contenuti
- Ecology and how to do it
- What is ecology
- Individual, population, community, and ecosystem scales
- Observations, experiments, models
- Statistics and scientific
rigor - Case studies
- Ecology’s evolutionary backdrop
- Diversity, evolution, natural selection, and fitness
- Species and speciation
- Effects of climate change and continental drift
- Convergents and parallels
- Physical conditions and the availability of resources
- Environmental conditions
- Plant and animal resources
- Intraspecific competition
- Ecological niche
- Conditions, resources and the world’s communities
- Large- and small-scale geographic and temporal patterns
- Biomes
- Aquatic environments
- Birth, death and movement
- Populations and individuals
- Life cycles
- Life tables
- Survivorship curves
- Population growth
- Life history patterns
- Interspecific competition
- Case studies
- The competitive exclusion principle
- Sustainability (389-399)
- What is sustainability
- The human population ‘problem’
- Habitat degradation
- Physical and chemical impacts of human activities
- Ecosystem services
- Degradation via cultivation
- Power generation and its diverse effects
Metodi didattici
C
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
Integrated exam of the 2 teaching modules
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
ppt files, scientific papers, book chapters
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Marco Abbiati
Consulta il sito web di Erik Caroselli
Consulta il sito web di Erik Caroselli
SDGs
L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.