- Offerta formativa A.A. 2017/2018
- Master's Degree in COASTAL AND MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
- COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
- Teaching in italian
- COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
- Teaching
- COMMUNITY ECOLOGY
- Subject area
- BIO/07
- Reference degree course
- COASTAL AND MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
- Course type
- Master's Degree
- Credits
- 6.0
- Teaching hours
- Frontal Hours: 0.0
- Academic year
- 2017/2018
- Year taught
- 2017/2018
- Course year
- 1
- Language
- ENGLISH
- Curriculum
- PERCORSO COMUNE
- Reference professor for teaching
- MANCINELLI GIORGIO
- Location
- Lecce
Teaching description
Knowledge of basic ecological concepts provided in undergraduate ecology courses
The course presents a detailed analysis of fundamental theories in community ecology in relation to the general historical context of the evolution of the ecological discipline, from Charles Elton to the present day; subsequently, it addresses specific conceptual and methodological issues focused on: i) macroecology and community assembly, ii) diversity-function relationships, iii) top-down and bottom-up controls on community organization, iv) food webs. Laboratory activities focus on the formalization and analysis of ecological data using advanced statistical methods and dedicated freeware packages (R)
To highlight and bring to students in a clear and contextualized way the most updated and discussed conceptual issues in community ecology, and at the same time provide the necessary statistical and methodological tools to analyze the structure and dynamics of natural communities
Lectures – Slides available online in pdf format - Reading of seminal papers in community ecology followed by discussion (student talks) - Group activities (working groups) analyzing specific topics related with the course - Supervised practical activities conducted in the computer lab using previously prepared material made available on-line
Final exam consisting in i) a written review focusing on the publications read during the course and ii) written test with multiple choice questions.
Morin - Community Ecology
Gotelli - Null Models in Ecology
Polis & Winemiller - Food Webs
Bolker - Ecological Models and Data in R
Semester
Second Semester (dal 12/03/2018 al 08/06/2018)
Exam type
Compulsory
Type of assessment
Oral - Final grade
Course timetable
https://easyroom.unisalento.it/Orario