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Ecology for territorial design and biomimetics
No full textThe functioning of natural systems is mandatory to be known when we want to design in the territory. This is important to understand the potential impacts and consequences of our actions on natural environment. In addition, studying the wide variability of shapes, sizes and structural details of natural world can help us to investigate the concept of structure in Nature, offering valuable information on the form-function relationship in the project and on the efficiency principles governing Nature. At the same time, the acquisition of awareness on natural environmental complexity raises the urgency to explore adaptation strategies in a changing environment.
In this contribution I report the study case of the Department of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of the University of Sassari, where Ecology is tough to students of the degree courses of Architecture and Design. In Architecture, the functioning of natural systems is investigated to understand the urgent need to preserve them, also in light of the climatic crisis on-going. Selected ecosystems are analysed with the collection and interpretation of scientific data to recognize possible anthropic impacts and evaluate restoration and management activities.
In Design, starting from the analysis and interpretation of scientific data on phytoplankton ecology, students apply the acquired knowledge on natural principles to possible design applications with a biomimetic approach. Design solutions inspired by phytoplankton ecology are validated with the construction of experimental models and prototypes.
In both courses, Nature itself is considered as a model of environmental sustainabilit
Picophytoplankton in Mediterranean lagoons. Study cases from Sardinia: Calich, Santa Giusta and Corru S’Ittiri lagoons
No full textWhat is Chrysophaeum taylorii Lewis & Bryan doing in Sardinia (Tyrrhenian Sea, Mediterranean)?
No full textPhytoplankton dynamics in relation to environmental changes in a phytoplankton-dominated lagoon (Cabras Lagoon, Italy)
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Water quality evaluation in Mediterranean lagoons using the Multimetric Phytoplankton Index (MPI): Study cases from Sardinia
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