Prof. Mattia Brambilla

• Non sono previste differenze di materiali didattici e modalità d'esame tra studenti frequentanti e non frequentanti.

Argomenti del programma: Introduzione all'ecologia: livelli di organizzazione ecologica: organismi, popolazioni, comunità, ecosistemi, paesaggi, biomi e biosfera; il controllo biologico dell'ambiente geochimico. Esempi e proprietà generali degli ecosistemi, componenti biotiche ed abiotiche, produzione e decomposizione, servizi ecosistemici.

• Slides will be available on the course Ariel website
• There are no differences in teaching materials and exam methods between attending and non-attending students.

Argomenti del programma: 1. general guidelines to the approach of ecological studies 2. sampling design 3. approaches to freshwater ecology 4. contaminants in the environment 5. introduction to Geographic Information Systems 6. monitoring of terrestrial organisms

• Online resources consisting of different books, chapters, review and research papers, which are reported in the course's slides (and are freely accessible with the institutional account).
• There are no differences in teaching materials and exam methods between attending and non-attending students.

Argomenti del programma: The course is subdivided into two main parts; the first integrates some basic ecology elements with more advanced examples, deals with ecosystem properties and functioning, and provides the basis for the second one. The second part has the main focus on ecosystem services, is more applied, includes practical examples, integrates different views and provides knowledge and skills for applied tasks.