Course teached as: B018905 - EVOLUZIONE DEGLI ECOSISTEMI TERRESTRI Second Cycle Degree in SCIENZE DELLA NATURA E DELL'UOMO Curriculum SCIENZE ANTROPOLOGICHE
Behrensmeyer, A. K., J. D. Damuth, W. A. DiMichele, R. Potts, H.‐D. Sues and S. L. Wing. 1992. Terrestrial ecosystems through time. Evolutionary paleoecology of terrestrial plants and animals. The University of Chicago Press, 578 pp. ISBN: 0‐226‐04155‐7.
Martinetto E., Tschopp E., Gastaldo R.A. (Eds.). 2020. Nature Through Time: Virtual Field Trips Through the Nature of the Past. Springer, 462 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-35057-4. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35058-1
Società Paleontologica Italiana (Ed.). 2020. Manuale di Paleontologia. Fondamenti - Applicazioni. Edizioni Idelson Gnocchi 1908, 498pp. ISBN: 9788879477147
Learning Objectives
Knowledge:
The course is offered to students in Natural Sciences but is of interest also for students in Geological Sciences.
Competence and skills acquired:
The course is aimed to provide the students with the knowledge of timing and patterns of evolutionary history of Terrestrial Ecosystems through time.
Teaching Methods
Lectures
Type of Assessment
oral exam
Course program
Traces of the first terrestrial organisms. Structure of the trophic pyramid in the Palaeozoic: increase and change of organisms' interactions related to new feeding strategies. Changing of the ecological scenario through geological time. Palaeoecology of mass extinctions. Mass extinctions and terrestrial ecosystems. Palaeoecological context and evolutionary opportunities. relationship between climate variation and ecological changes. the role of anthropic impact on terrestrial ecosystems during the Plio-Pleistocene