- Docente: Dino Scaravelli
- Credits: 4
- SSD: BIO/05
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sciences and Management of Nature (cod. 9257)
Learning outcomes
The student must acquire the knowledge related to the different techniques to be put in place for the monitoring of the various faunistic components, relatively to scientific, technical and management purposes.
The knowledge to be obtained is aimed to understand and use the various technologies available today to monitor wildlife in relation to its conservation, evaluating the purposes and possibilities, in order to be able to face the planning of a research.
At the end of the course the student has the knowledge necessary to structuring a monitoring scheme for conservation or management, as well as being able to present it.
Course contents
• Wildlife research: why and how to survey animals
• Faunistic monitoring: themes, meanings, historical and biogeographic context
• The methodological and legislative basis
• The taxa approach: main research methodologies in invertebrates
• Monitoring methods for fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals
• Remote sensing, satellite tracking and GIS
• The photographic approach and camera trapping
• Bioacoustics for species and environments monitoring
Readings/Bibliography
Courses slides, articles and availble tests
Teaching methods
lectures, seminars and field trips
Assessment methods
exam in which a monitoring project must be presented on vertebrate species with a powerpoint presentation and one or two questions on the topics encountered during the course
Teaching tools
Courses slides
Office hours
See the website of Dino Scaravelli