Prof. Iacopo Bertocci

Argomenti del programma: Il corso si articolerà in una serie di attività di campo finalizzate alla raccolta di organismi bentonici da varie matrici ambientali, al processamento in laboratorio dei campioni raccolti ed alla successiva organizzazione e analisi attraverso metodologie di base di ampio utilizzo.

• Lectures slides made available to the students.

Argomenti del programma: Basic concepts and definitions: biological ans statistical population, assemblage vs. ecological community, ecological patterns and processes. The hypothetical-deductive approach for hypothesis testing in Ecology. Frequency distributions, parameters and their estimates. Mean, variance, standard error, confidence interval, accuracy and precision. The t-test.

• Lectures slides made available to the students.

Argomenti del programma: Basic concepts and definitions: biological ans statistical population, assemblage vs. ecological community, ecological patterns and processes. The hypothetical-deductive approach for hypothesis testing in Ecology. Frequency distributions, parameters and their estimates. Mean, variance, standard error, confidence interval, accuracy and precision. The t-test.