Irakasgaiaren azalpena eta testuingurua

The aim of the course is to provide the students with a basis which allows them to analyze the biological responses of marine living organisms to environmental changes and vice versa, in the context of a global change situation. The global change is conceived as any environmental trend and change (past, present or future) which affects a substantial part of the global environment and can be due to many factors, including the ones mediated by biological agents. The main factors consider both how the marine organisms and ecosystems respond to change factors and vice versa, and how the biota acclimates and adapts to the main environmental stressors due to global change, including the environmental and evolutionary aspects involved. To that end, a substantial part of the course deals with the analysis of the physical environment in which these changes appear.

Ohiko deialdia: orientazioak eta uko egitea

Students must attend all the sessions, teaching is face to face.

The active participation (and its quality) in round tables will be assessed. Active participation will be evaluated with a 15% of the total grade for each roundtable.

The students must make a short presentation about a paper related to the course and prepared in groups of two to three students. This activity will be evaluated as 55% of the total grade.

There will be a short quiz based on multiple answer questions, 10-20% of the grade.

The grading policy indicated in this guide might be changed if health authorities require so. In that case, the changes will be announced with ample time, considering the strategies and tools needed to allow the students to be evaluated with equity and justice.

Ezohiko deialdia: orientazioak eta uko egitea

The students who do not pass during the first call have the option to take a written exam at the end of June. In this exam, many multiple choice questions about the topics covered during the lectures will be presented to the student.

The grading policy indicated in this guide might be changed if health authorities require so. In that case, the changes will be announced with ample time, considering the strategies and tools needed to allow the students to be evaluated with equity and justice.

Irakasgai-zerrenda

1. Global atmospheric and ocean changes:

o introduction: past, present and future trends in global climate greenhouse gases, ozone and radiation;

o seawater warming and ocean acidification; and

2. Anthropocene:

o introduction: human population growth and global change;

o urbanisation, land use and economical activity; and

o large-scale and long-term trends in marine pollution.

3. Biological adaptations and evolutionary processes:

o introduction: environmental stress as driver of biological response to global change; the global scenario of changing multiple stressors

o tolerance, resistance and defence mechanism of biota in extreme, changing and altered environments;

o global change induced modifications in the morphology, physiology, behaviour, phenology and life history of species and their ecological and evolutionary consequences

4. Biodiversity trends:

o introduction: morphological vs functional biodiversity;

o biodiversity loss and biogeographical shifts;

o host-parasite interactions and infectious diseases;

o biological invasions;

o paleontological records of landmarks in global biodiversity changes and trends;

o evolutionary consequences of microevolution and biodiversity trends;

Bibliografia

Nahitaez erabili beharreko materiala

The handouts, research papers, software and datasets used in the course and made available to students by means of egela.

Oinarrizko bibliografia

I. Sokolova, Temperature regulation, In Encyclopedia of Ecology, edited by Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath, Academic Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 3509–3516



I. Sokolova, Poikilotherms, In Encyclopedia of Ecology, edited by Sven Erik Jørgensen and Brian D. Fath, Academic Press, Oxford, 2008, pp. 2851–2854



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Aldizkariak

Science https://www.sciencemag.org/







Nature Climate Change: https://www.nature.com/nclimate/







Environmental Research Letters: https://iopscience.iop.org/journal/1748-9326







Global Environmental Change: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/global-environmental-change







Climate Dynamics: https://link.springer.com/journal/382







Climatic Change: https://link.springer.com/journal/10584







Science of the total environment: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/science-of-the-total-environment

Estekak

https://www.ipcc.ch/