Ecosystems conservation and management - Sede di Milano

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: 2024/2025, 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 2020-21: Photo 1, Photo 2

Class of 2021-22: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3

Class of 2022-023: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3

Other material is or will be made available on this site.
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
- There are very few typos in the book. Here are the relevant pages with the corrections.
Evaluation:
- By means of written tests which will include both numerical exercises and conceptual questions.
Exercises:
- Old numerical exercises can be found here.
- New numerical exercises can be found in the textbook and there is some overlap with the old exercises.
- 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 of the old exercises solved with Excel: exercises on stochasticity and exercises on spatial ecology
- Solutions of new exercises on extinction risk: here
- Solutions of new exercises on spatial ecology: here
  
  Supplementary material
Global Biodiversity Outlook

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: