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Lectures, lab and exercises Marino Gatto |
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Students: Master of Science in Environmental and Land Planning Engineering (1st and 2nd year of the Laurea magistrale) |
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Academic year: 2024/2025, 1st semester |
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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 Class of 2021-22: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3 Class of 2022-023: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3 Class of 2023-024: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5, Photo 6 Class of 2024-025: Photo 1, Photo 2, Photo 3, Photo 4, Photo 5, Photo 6 |
· The course will start on Monday 16 September 2024 at 16.30 in room 21.S.4
· Schedule/Classroom assignment
o Monday 16.15-18.15 in room 21.S.4
o Tuesday 11.15-13.15 in room 26.02
o Wednesday 11.15-13.15 in room C
o Thursday 11.15-13.15 in room T.0.2
· Course description and topics can be found here
· The supporting textbook is:
o 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:
o By means of written tests which will include both numerical exercises and conceptual questions.
· Exercises:
o Old numerical exercises can be found here.
o New numerical exercises can be found in the textbook and there is some overlap with the old exercises.
o An example of a test on the first part of the course: test of November 15, 2017
o An example of a test on the second part of the course: test of January 18, 2018
o Exercises from three exam tests can be found here, here and here
o Some of the old exercises solved with Excel: exercises on stochasticity and exercises on spatial ecology
o Solutions of new exercises on extinction risk: here
o Solutions of new exercises on spatial ecology: here
Topics of possible Master's theses can be found here, here, here, here, and here
· 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:
o Loss of biodiversity and Allee effect
o Stochastic fluctuations and PVA
o Spatial ecology and metapopulations
o Management of renewable resources
