28912 - Paleogeography and Biodiversity

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Roberto Barbieri
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: GEO/01
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sciences and Management of Nature (cod. 8209)

Learning outcomes


Course contents

Major factors influencing the distribtion of organisms. Major temporal changes through the Phenerozoic: geological changes, major patterns of biodiversity changes, radiations and extinctions, trends with geographic components, the role of competition. Biogeography during Early Paleozoic, Late Paleozoic, Early Mesozoic, Late Mesozoic, Paleogene, Neogene.

Readings/Bibliography

Anthony Hallam. An Outline of Phanerozoic Biogeography. Oxford University Press, 1994

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Office hours

See the website of Roberto Barbieri