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B6600 - ECOSYSTEM HEALTH

Anno Accademico 2024/2025

                
                        Docente:
                        Roberto Cazzolla Gatti
                    
                        Crediti formativi:
                        6
                    
                        SSD:
                        BIO/03
                    
                        Lingua di insegnamento:
                        Inglese
                    
                        Modalità didattica:
                        Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Laurea in
                            Biology of Human and Environmental Health (cod. 5909)

                            Risorse didattiche su Virtuale
                        
                                    Orario delle lezioni
                                
dal 24/09/2024 al 17/01/2025

Contenuti

Brief history of the conservation of ecosystem diversity. Distribution and diversity of global ecosystems. Spatial and temporal gradients of ecosystems. Importance of biodiversity for the functioning of ecosystems, ecosystem functions, processes and global health. Threats to Earth’s ecosystem diversity, mass extinctions and global changes. Processes of overexploitation, degradation and contamination of ecosystems. Conservation methods of ecosystems. Social, economic and political elements for ecosystem conservation. National and international strategies and case studies, protected areas, ecological corridors, rewilding and other approaches to conserve ecosystem health. Outline of modern technologies in support of ecosystem conservation. Examples of success practices in ecosystem conservation.

Testi/Bibliografia

Weathers, Kathleen C., David L. Strayer, and Gene E. Likens, eds. Fundamentals of ecosystem science. Academic Press, 2021
Cazzolla Gatti R., Biodiversity in time and space, 2018. Nova Science Publishers (some copies are available at the Zoology Library of UniBo)

Metodi didattici

Lectures (in English), seminars (in English), discussion groups (outdoors), and field activities (in different ecosystems)

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Type of assessment: Written test for the first examination session (with the possibility for oral test on student's choice) and oral tests for all subsequent sessions.

Type of questions: open questions.

Description of the assessment: The written test and oral tests aim to evaluate the student's acquisition of theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics discussed during the course and the ability to use this knowledge to understand the main topics related to issues in ecosystem health.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Presentations of lectures, video-documentary material, scientific publications, international reports and specialized websites provided by the teacher.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Roberto Cazzolla Gatti