Università Roma Tre

- Introduction to Ecology
- Typolgies of physical environment: overview
- Ecosystem: abiotic and biotic components
- Population: properties, patterns and metapopolation
- Species: characteristics and evolution
- Ecological niche and ecological interactions between and within species
- Evolution of species and ecosystem
- Community: characteristics, structure and evolution
- Ecosystem: photosynthetic processes, decomposing processes and nutrient cycle
- Biogeochemical cycles
- Landscape: properties and dynamics
- Biomes and types of aquatic ecosystems
- Goods and services of ecosystems
- Diversity and sustainable development
- Management and conservation of resources
- Environmental education: citizens' behavior and citizen-science
- Teaching Ecology in the school: scientific method, didactic projects, national regulation

− M. Smith, R. L. Smith Elementi di Ecologia, Pearson Ed, 2013