Università Roma Tre

Cultural competences (knowledge of): - Theoretical and practical bases of animal and plant community ecology - Macroecology - Morphological-functional traits measured on species and functional groups - Interactions among species (competition, facilitation, trophic) - Coexistence, co-occurrence among species and community assemblage - Ecological niche and niche overlap among species - Community diversity (taxonomic, functional, phylogenetic) -

Methodological competences (know how to perform): - Know how to define how to study animal and plant communities and analyze their structure - Know how to quantitatively analyze the relationships between organisms belonging to the same community - Know how to perform null models to conduct community simulation analyses - Know how to choose models for analysis and sampling techniques best suited to the groups of organisms analyzed - Know how to apply and understand diversity metrics - Know how to identify functional groups or guilds.