Academic year2016/17
CourseMARINE BIOLOGY
Code144EE
Credits6
PeriodSemester 2
LanguageItalian
| Modules | Area | Type | Hours | Teacher(s) |
| ZOOLOGIA MARINA | BIO/05 | LEZIONI | 56 | |
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Knowledge
This course has two main target: 1) to improve the student's knolwdge on basic systematic of marine animals; 2) to supply some basic knowledge on a demographic approach to the study of animal populations. At the end of the course the student will demonstrate to to have acieved a an advanced knowledge on: 1) taxonomy and ecology of marine animals, 2) peculiar couuminties like the "coralligenous species assemblage" and "corali reefs"; 3) natural populations 4) growth rates, growth curves, life tables, mortality tables.
Assessment criteria of knowledge
Methods:
Teaching methods
Delivery: face to face
Learning activities:
- attending lectures
- participation in seminar
- Laboratory work
Attendance: Advised
Teaching methods:
- Lectures
- Seminar
- laboratory
Syllabus
Species and Natural populations. Suspension feeders, active suspension feeders, sponges;Cnidarians. Jellifish, Anthozoans: Exa and Octocorals, Coral reefs, Marine Platelmints; Nematods, Protostoma: metamery and Coeloma; Polycaeates, Molluscs,
Bibliography
A book of systematic zoology including vertebrates. (e.g. Hickman et al, Systematic Zoology 4th Edition
A book of Ecology (e.g. Rickleffs an Miller Ecology Freeman and Con NY
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