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Islands as models to study biological diversity and socio-ecosystems resilience in a changing world (II SEM) (visiting)
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Anno accademico 2024/2025
- Codice attività didattica
- INT1771
- Docente
- Dominique Bruno Strasberg (Titolare del corso)
- Corso di studio
- Corso SSST
- Periodo
- Secondo semestre
- Tipologia
- A scelta dello studente
- Crediti/Valenza
- 3 (18 ore)
- SSD attività didattica
- BIO/05 - zoologia
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Frequenza
- Obbligatoria
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
Because islands are particularly vulnerable to global changes and anthropogenic disturbances such as deforestation, defaunation, climate and land use changes, and biological invasions the course will deal with islands as models to better understand the drivers of global changes occurring at global scale.
Introductive lectures will be given to students so they can get an overview of major drivers of global changes impacting natural ecosystems. The course will focus then on documenting and analysing case studies from islands and remote territories.
Case studies will help in understanding how anthropogenic changes are working in synergia; it will also provide some examples of practical solutions developed locally to preserve functional ecosystems, biodiversity and resources. One outcome of the lessons will allow us to question if we can learn from islands for implementing environmental conservation actions in larger continental areas, as often suggested in scientific literature.
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Programma
The lectures will involve students in analysing several documents and data from field studies where stakeholders, decision-makers or searchers tried to tackle environmental problems on islands. These case studies will mainly concern tropical or subtropical islands, mainly from the South West Indian Ocean area.
Multi-disciplinary approach will be promoted to questions some issues like,
- the relationships between native ecosystem degradation and vulnerability of economy on islands.
- the relevance of archives and paleo-environment to explain resilience of ecosystems to environmental and anthropogenic changesDuring lessons students will be able to argue, to debate and to give recommendations on key issues like :
- Assessing the success or failure of conservation actions and rewilding programs on islands; the efficiency of marine and terrestrial protected areas
- Management of natural risks and vulnerability of island societies
- The definition of conservation priorities and the implementation of restoration practices
- Measuring impacts of biological invasions, solving socio-economical conflicts in invasive species managementTesti consigliati e bibliografia
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Climate Change 2022 -; Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Working Group II Contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press; 2023.
José María Fernández-Palacios, Holger Kreft, Severin D.H. Irl, Sietze Norder, Claudine Ah-Peng, Paulo A.V. Borges, Kevin C. Burns, Lea de Nascimento, Jean-Yves Meyer, Elba Montes, Donald R. Drake. 2021. Scientists’ warning -; The outstanding biodiversity of islands is in peril, Global Ecology and Conservation, Volume 31,
e01847, ISSN 2351-9894,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01847.
Whittaker, R. J. & Fernández-Palacios, J. M. 2023. Island Biogeography: Geo-Environmental Dynamics, Ecology, Evolution, Human Impact, and Conservation. Oxford University Press.
Yamada, K., Nunn, P., Mimura, N., Machida, S. & Yamamoto, M. Methodology for the assessment of vulnerability of South Pacific island countries to sea level rise and climate change. J. Glob. Environ. Eng. 1, 101-;125 (1995).
Weigelt, P., Jetz, W. & Kreft, H. Bioclimatic and physical characterization of the world’s islands. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 110, 15307-;15312 (2013).
Bellard, C. et al. Vulnerability of biodiversity hotspots to global change: Biodiversity hotspots and global change. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 23, 1376-;1386 (2014).
Weigelt, P., Steinbauer, M. J., Cabral, J. S. & Kreft, H. Late Quaternary climate change shapes island biodiversity. Nature 532, 99-;102 (2016).
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