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PALEOECOLOGY
cod. 02626

Academic year 2009/10
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Paleontologia e paleoecologia (GEO/01)
Field
Discipline geologiche e paleontologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
48 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
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Learning objectives

The course deals with marine paleoecology and its objective is to show how fossils can be used for paleoenviromental reconstruction at level of individual, population and community.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

<p>- Introduction (definitions and subdivision of paleoecology; relationships between ecology and paleoecology); <br />
- Basic concepts of ecology and the marine ecosystem (physical environments, life modes and trophic strategies of marine organisms); <br />
- Environmental control on organism distribution in the marine environments; <br />
- Taxonomic uniformism and functional morphology; <br />
- Fossils as environmental indicators; <br />
- Paleoenviromental reconstruction at population and community levels; <br />
- Quantitative analysis of fossils assemblages <br />
- Applications: examples of paleoenviromental/paleoceanographic and paleoclimatic reconstructions based on foraminifera. <br />
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Full programme

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Bibliography

1) Brenchley P.J. & Harper D.A.T., 1998. Palaeoecology: ecosystem, environments and evolution. Chapman & Hall. <br />
2) Goldring R., 1991. Fossils in the field. Information potential and analysis. Longman Scientific &Technical. <br />
3) Raffi S. & Serpagli E., 1993. Introduzione alla Paleontologia. Utet. <br />
4) Murray J.W., 1993. Ecology and paleoecology of benthic foraminifera. Longman Scientific &Technical. <br />
5) Murray J., 2006. Ecology and Applications of benthic foraminifera. Cambridge University Press. <br />
6) Pinet P.R., 1998. Invitation to Oceanography. Jones & Bartlett. <br />
7) Odum E.P., 1988. Basi di Ecologia. Piccin Editore. <br />

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