Dynamics of biodiversity and paleoenvironments

"This course aims to present and explain the concepts, the problems, the operational approach in the field and in the laboratory, the methodological and analytical strategies that allow us to infer and reconstruct the fluctuations of wild and human-used biodiversity over time. It is based on empirical and modelled, ecological, palaeoecological, palaeobiogeographical, archaeobiological and palethnobiological data sets. Particular attention will be paid to:

- the functional role of ecological disturbances such as fire in the transformation of the vegetation cover;

- the impact of the evolution of human societies on the dynamics of forest ecosystems;

- 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 bioarchaeology;

- Acquire an interdisciplinary vision in paleoecology and macroecology;

- Knowledge of the main factors governing the dynamics of vegetation,"

"- basic ecology and environmental science ;

- basic concepts in data analysis,"

Continuous assessment : 100%.