LABORATORIO DI BIOLOGIA DI POPOLAZIONI
cod. 23668

Anno accademico 2008/09
2° anno di corso - Primo semestre
Docente
Settore scientifico disciplinare
Genetica (BIO/18)
Field
Discipline biologiche e biologiche applicate
Tipologia attività formativa
Caratterizzante
36 ore
di attività frontali
3 crediti
sede:
insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi

Il corso ha lo scopo di approfondire alcuni aspetti delle biologia di popolazioni umane e animali

Prerequisiti

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Contenuti dell'insegnamento

Popolazioni umane <br />
Le migrazioni umane <br />
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Popolazioni animali <br />
Fenologia e cambiamenti climatici <br />
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Casi di studio: <br />
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1. Cambiamenti climatici e dinamica di popolazione di uccelli migratori <br />
2. Cambiamenti climatici e declino delle popolazioni di anfibi <br />

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Bibliografia

Bancroft, B.A. et al. 2007. Effects of UVB radiation on marine and freshwater organisms: a synthesis through meta-analysis. ECOLOGY LETTERS 10:332-345. <br />
Belden, Lisa K. 2002. Population differences in sensitivity to UV-B radiation for larval long-toed salamanders. ECOLOGY 6: 1586–1590 <br />
Blaustein, A.R. and D.B. Wake. 1990. Declining amphibian populations: a global phenomenon? TRENDS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION 5:203-204. <br />
Both C. et al. 2004. Large-scale geographical variation confirms that climate change causes birds to lay earlier. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 271: 1657-1662. <br />
Both C., Visser M.E. 2001. Adjustment to climate change is constrained by arrival date in a long-distance migrant bird. NATURE 411: 296-298. <br />
McCallum, M.L. 2007. Amphibian decline or extinction? Current declines dwarf background extinction rate. JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY. 41: 483–491. <br />
Pavesi A. 2005. Utility of JC polyomavirus in tracing the Pattern of human migrations dating to prehistoric times. THE JOURNAL OF GENERAL VIROLOGY 86:1315-1326. <br />
Pavesi A. 2004. Detecting traces of prehistoric human migrations by geographic synthetic maps of polyomavirus JC. JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION 58: 304-313. <br />
Pavesi A. 2003. African origin of polyomavirus JC and implications for prehistoric human migrations. JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION 56: 564-572. <br />
Pounds, J. A. et al. 2006.Widespread amphibian extinctions from epidemic disease driven by global warming. NATURE 439: 161-167. <br />
Saether BE, et al. 2003 Climate variation and regional gradients in population dynamics of two hole-nesting passerines. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 270: 2397-2404. <br />
Saino N, et al. 2004 Timing of reproduction and egg quality covary with temperature in the insectivorous Barn Swallow, Hirundo rustica. FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY 18: 50-57. <br />
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