Laboratory of Experimental Ecology University of Bologna in Ravenna

Main Research Areas

·         Ecology of coastal habitats, including rocky reefs, submarine caves, coastal lagoons and human-made structures

·         Experimental analysis of the roles of physical and biological processes in maintaining spatial and temporal patterns in natural assemblages

·         Fluxes of sediments and environmental impact of enhanced sediment loads

·         Biodiversity and conservation of coastal assemblages

·         Assessment of environmental consequences of urbanization in coastal areas

·         Design and analysis of ecological experiments

·         Integrated coastal management, EIA and risk assessment, biotic indexes of environmental quality

·         Effects of natural and anthropogenic disturbances on benthic assemblages

·         Evolutionary ecology and adaptive strategies in coastal and estuarine invertebrates

·         Secondary production and trophic structure in macrobenthos

·         Application of population dynamic models to aquatic ecotoxicology

 

Facilities

 

Laboratory equipment: microscopes and binoculars, Nikon and video cameras, several personal computers and two image analyser, two oven, muffle, thermostats chambers, automatic sieves column, Sartorius and Millipore filtering systems, equipment for electrophoresis, PCR, centrifuges, Microtox, incubators and aquaria

 

Field work equipment: aluminium and inflatable boats, Nikonos cameras, Underwater digital camcorder, Underwater digital camera, diving equipments, DGPSs, rangefinder, box corer, van Veen, Ponar and Ekman grabs, corers, Idronaut CTD, pH-meters, refractometers, conductivity meters, oxymeters

 

 

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Last update: 05/04/2012