PLANKTOLOGY
cod. 05535

Academic year 2012/13
3° year of course - First semester
Professor
Valeria ROSSI
Academic discipline
Ecologia (BIO/07)
Field
A scelta dello studente
Type of training activity
Student's choice
26 hours
of face-to-face activities
3 credits
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course unit
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Learning objectives

The course is aimed at providing a basic theoretical and practical background required for studying the main taxa of freshwater zooplankton.

Prerequisites

To have passed Ecology examination

Course unit content

What is plankton
The paradox of the plankton
General introduction to freshwater zooplankton

Rotifers: taxonomy and morphology. Distribution, ecology, life cycle. The most common species in Northern Italy.

Copepods: taxonomy and morphology. Distribution, ecology, life cycle. The most common species in Northern Italy.

Cladocerans: taxonomy and morphology. Distribution, ecology, life cycle. The most common species in Northern Italy.

Ostracods: taxonomy and morphology. Distribution, ecology, life cycle. The most common species in Northern Italy.

An outline of marine zooplankton.

Sampling methods.
Sorting.
Methods in data analysis

Case studies
1. Distribution and ecology of calanoid species in the Northern Apennines.
2. Succession of cladocerans in a northern Italian ricefield.
3. Ostracoda of the Italian ricefileds thirty years on: new synthesis and hypothesis.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Bellavere C. e Moroni A. 2001. Laghi e pozze del versante Nord dell’Appennino settentrionale. CIREA Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali Università di Parma. Tipografia Supergrafica Parma.
Boero F., Belmonte G., Fanelli G., Piraino S., Rubino F. 1996. The continuity of living matter and the discontinuities of its constituents: do plankton and benthos really exist? TREE 11: 177-179.
Braioni M.G. e Gelmini D. 1983. Rotiferi Monogononti (Rotatoria: Monogononta). Guide per il riconoscimento delle specie animali delle acque interne italiane. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche AQ/1/200.
Brown J.H. 1981. Two decades of homage to Santa Rosalia: toward a general theory of diversity. American Zoologist 21: 877-888.
Dussart B. 1969. Les copepodes des eaux continentales. Editions N. Boubee & Cie, Paris
Ghetti P.F. e McKenzie K.G. 1981. Ostracodi (Crustacea, Ostracoda). Guide per il riconoscimento delle specie animali delle acque interne italiane. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche AQ/1/108.
Hutchinson G.E. 1959. Homage to Santa Rosalia or why are there so many kinds of animals? The American Naturalist XCIII: 145-159.
Hutchinson G.E. 1961. The paradox of the plankton. The American Naturalist XCV: 137-145.
Hutchinson G.E. 1967. A treatise of limnology the nature and biology of the zooplankton. Wiley & Sons, NY.
Margaritora F.G. 1985. Cladocera. Edizioni Calderini Bologna.
Meisch C. 2000. Freshwater Ostracoda. Spektrum Akademoscher Verlag GmbH, Heidelberg.

Stella E. 1982. Calanoidi (Crustacea, Copepoda, Calanoida). Guide per il riconoscimento delle specie animali delle acque interne italiane. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche AQ/1/140.
Stella E. 1984. Crustacea Copepoda: Calanoida (d’acqua dolce). Edizioni Calderini Bologna.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons, exercises and practices

Assessment methods and criteria

Final written test

Other information

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2030 agenda goals for sustainable development

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Contacts

Toll-free number

800 904 084

Student registry office

T.+39 0521 905116
E. segreteria.scienze@unipr.it

Quality assurance office

Education manager 

Roberta Pagani
T. +39 0521 905613 -  +39 0521 905555
E. servizio didattica.scvsa@unipr.it
E. del manager roberta.pagani@unipr.it

 

President of the degree course

Valeria Rossi

Deputy President of the degree course 

Alessandra Mori

Faculty advisor

Antonella Bachiorri

Career guidance delegate

Anna Torelli

Quality assurance manager

Prof.ssa Alessandra Mori

Internships

Paolo Lunghi