USTH Moodle

W26

Ecosystems functioning and Aquatic living resources

ECTS

5

Specialities

NEWS

Keywords

Ecosystem services - Aquatic resources - Functional Biodiversity - Functional Ecology

Description

The module is focused on Ecosystems services with a general presentation of related concepts on ecosystem in general (first part) and emphasis on aquatic living resources in particular (second part).

Part 1: Concepts and tools in ecosystems functioning

This course addresses ecosystems understanding and associated services through different and complementary approaches, from the integrative ecology (including natural abiotic, biotic factors and human impact), the functional and evolutionary relationship between groups (such as parasitism, mutualism, invasive species, engineer species...), to the assessment of environmental threats on ecosystems integrity.

Each topic represents about 5-6 hours of teaching both theoretical and practical.

• Integrative ecology
  Main aspects useful in the understanding, evolution, assessment, management and conservation of ecosystems, including human impact
• Ecosystem dynamics and community ecology
  Natural relationship between communities (invertebrates and vertebrates) in undisturbed ecosystems; Principles of ecosystems dynamic and links between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
• Economics & management of biodiversity
  Focus on specific groups in biodiversity, important in economics and human health through their negative (pests, disease vectors...) and positive impact for Human (auxiliaries in biological control, pollinators, ecological engineers, decomposers...) with emphasis on how to manage, use, protect and conserve useful biodiversity.
• Principles in population biology
  This topic is focused on tools and methods commonly used to assess populations dynamics including studies of case using mathematical, modelling, genetic, experimental and GIS tools. The training is also presenting behavioural (strategies, life history traits) and cladistics (phylogeny) methods as well.

Part 2: Focus on aquatic living resources

Biology, exploitation and management of living aquatic resources: Know the richness of aquatic environments and issues associated with their exploitation. (15-20 h)

This course seeks to provide the foundations required to understand and study aquatic living resources, their dynamic, exploitation and management. As man increasingly exploits and modifies aquatic environment we also analyze the response of living resources to changes in environmental conditions.

More specifically this course

- describe and explain the different types of aquatic living resources available in different aquatic environments, their exploitation and culture.

- describe population dynamic, harvest and maintenance of the living resources in inland and marine waters. Current problems of fishing practices and fishery resource management.

- investigate the sensitivity of aquatic living resources in relation to human interventions. We particularly describe how environmental factors  (including climate change, fisheries, pollution, introduced and invasive species and habitat destruction) influence the quality and quantity of aquatic products produced under natural and cultured conditions.

Coordinators

Prof Yves CAUBET, Univ. Poitiers

Lectures

Instructors

UP: Yves CAUBET, Freddie-Jeanne RICHARD, Didier BOUCHON, Sophie BELTRAN-BECH

ULCO: Prof. Rachid AMARA, ULCO

Control

examination + practical + personal work