2017/2018

2017/2018

DM270

BIO/05 (ZOOLOGY)

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

NATURAL SCIENCES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (01/03/2018 - 13/06/2018)

12

114 lesson hours

Italian

ORAL TEST

FASOLA MAURO (titolare) - 3 ECTS
MERIGGI ALBERTO - 9 ECTS

Acquisition of basic knowledge of Animal Ecology and Ethology;
Use of GIS software, in particular Quantum GIS;
Inferential statistic knowledge, univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses.

The course aims to provide the students with a theoretical-practical approach to the wildlife conservation and management. It also provides the tools needed to wildlife planning both for conservation and for harvesting. At the end of the course, students will be able to carry out quantitative estimates of wildlife populations (censuses), assess and predict the population trend, to plan sustainable yeld and numerical control, formulate habitat suitability models by the most advanced methods and to draw up wildlife plans for both hunting and protected areas.

All the main issues of management and conservation of the animal biota are treated

Lessons; seminars on specific issues; training on software for population viability analysis, habitat suitability modeling; field excursions.

Wildlife Ecology, Conservation,
and Management
Second Edition
Anthony R.E. Sinclair PhD, FRS
Biodiversity Research Centre, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada
John M. Fryxell PhD
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph,
Canada
Graeme Caughley PhD
CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Manuale di gestione della fauna
S. Lovari e F. Riga
Greentime S.p.A. 2016
Ecological Census
Techniques
a handbook
Second Edition
Edited by
WILLIAM J. SUTHERLAND
University of East Anglia
Cambridge University Press 1996, 2006

Oral examination