Lectures, lab and exercises Marino Gatto |
Students: Master of Science in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering (1st and 2nd year of the Laurea magistrale) |
Academic year: 2023/2024, 1st semester |
Credits: 10 (students of the Master of Science in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering) Class of 2015-16: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3 Class of 2016-17: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5 Class of 2017-18: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5 Class of 2018-19: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4 Class of 2019-20: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4 Class of 2020-21: Photo 1, Photo 2 |
The course will start on Wednesday 13 September 2023 at 11.30 in room B.2.2
Schedule/Classroom assignment
Monday 16.15-18.15 in room 25.1.6
Thursday 11.15-13.15 in room 26.0.1
Course description and topics can be found here
The supporting textbook is:
Marino Gatto, Renato Casagrandi Ecosystem Conservation and Management: Models and Application, Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09480-4, Hardcover ISBN 978-3-031-09479-8, eBook ISBN978-3-031-09480-4
Evaluation:
By means of written tests which will include both numerical exercises and conceptual questions.
Exercises:
Numerical exercises can be found here or in the textbook.
An example of a test on the first part of the course: test of November 15, 2017
An example of a test on the second part of the course: test of January 18, 2018
Exercises from three exam tests can be found here, here and here
Some exercises solved with Excel: exercises on stochasticity and exercises on spatial ecology
Software Populus (version 5.5, needs java), simulation of ecological models
Software VORTEX for Population Viability Analysis
Videos of EXPO event "Impacts of climate change on ecosystem services" can be found here
Videos of Professor Steve Stearns lectures on Ecology and Evolution can be found here
Slides of lectures: