Dynamics of biodiversity and paleoenvironments

"The aim of this EU is to present and explain the concepts, issues, operational approach in the field and in the laboratory, and methodological and analytical strategies used to infer and reconstruct fluctuations in wild and human-exploited biodiversity over time. It draws on empirical and modeled data sets covering ecology, paleoecology, paleobiogeography, archaeobiology, archaeology, and paleoethnobiology. Particular attention will be paid to:

- the functional role of ecological disturbances such as fires in vegetation cover transformations;

- the impact of changes in human societies on the dynamics of forest ecosystems;

- the exploitation, cultivation/breeding, and domestication of plants and animals based on the study of modern and bioarchaeological data. "

- Mastery of concepts and approaches in paleoecology and bioarcheology;

- Acquire an interdisciplinary perspective in paleoecology and macroecology;

- Knowledge of the main factors governing vegetation dynamics,

- basic concepts in ecology and environmental science;

- basic concepts in data analysis,"

Continuous assessment: 100%