Software descriptors

SOFTWARE DESCRIPTORS

As a part of this project the Ecology Unit of University of Salento developed and tested a new multimetric index for the evaluation of the ecological status of an ecosystem.

The work process can be divided into the 3 following steps:

State of the Art: the first step to develop a new and useful index is to do a scouting of the existing indexe.s for the same purpose and to find the possible gaps or imprecisions into the matemathical model.

Realization of the mathematical model: the next step is the realization of the index in theory. In other words the goal is to identify a set of parameters that can completely characterize a given ecosystem and establish a function of these parameters that returns a numeric value representative of the ecological status of the ecosystem.
User Module Implementation: the last step is the implementation of a module to test the index calculation on a given set of data. The realized index is the ISS Phytoplankton and the tool for the index calculation is available both in windows version and in web version into the Products section of this site.

Staff

F. Lugoli, Temporary researcher fellow
W. Ingrosso, Post-Graduate Fellow
L. Roselli, Temporary researcher fellow