The interdisciplinary nature of the course allows you to recognize and describe the areas of natural and man made landscape in which intervenes, to deal consciously with the different phases of human settlement, with the history and form of urban structures.
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CONTENTS
Elements of Botany: Structure and Function of Vascular Plants - Photosynthesis process– C3 and C4 plants - Life forms and Chorotypes.
Systematic Botany - Flora and Vegetation - Native and aliens plants, archeophytes and neophytes, spontaneous and cultivated plants in urban and peri-urban areas. Anthropocene and Wilderness management.
Vegetation structure – Plants Community - Vegetation dynamics – Phytosociology - Biomes and Ecoregions.
Phytogeography - Mediterranean biogeographical region– World mediterranean ecozones.
Ecosystem - Biocenosis – Biotope – Landscape.
Latium Green Landscape: mediterranean, submontan and riparian vegetation, Roman Campagna (Countryside) as anthropic steppe.
Nature’s gradients in the Landscape: naturals, semi-naturals, rurals, artificial (parks and gardens, urban and industrials settlements) ecosystems.
Matter cycles and energy flows in natural and urban ecosystems. The city as a dissipative system
Habitat, definition and classification scheme based on Habitats Directive; list of threatened regional endemic habitats objects of conservation and protection measures: SIC, ZSC e ZPS; Hot-spots and Vegetation Red Lists of endagered species.
Landscape Ecology: patch - matrix - corridor model, buffer zone, ecological network.
Habitat fragmentation and connettivity, Genetic drift, Biodiversity in natural and urban areas.
Flora and vegetation in urban environment and natural habitat, arboreal composition and dynamics of periurban and urban green, taxonomy of forest, wood, countryside and streetscape, trees morphology, physiology and ecosystem services.
E. ODUM, 1987 – Ecologia. Zanichelli
Vegetazione:
PIGNATTI S. et al., 1995 - Ecologia vegetale. UTET
POLUNIN O. e WALTERS M., 1987 – Guida alle vegetazioni d'Europa. Zanichelli
Ecologia del paesaggio:
RICHARD T T FORMAN, 1995 - Land Mosaics The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge University Press
Ecologia urbana
RICHARD T T FORMAN, 2014 - Urban Ecology Science of Cities
Cambridge University Press
DUNCAN GOODWIN 2017 The Urban Tree
Routledge
Mutuazione: 21002064-2 ECOLOGIA VEGETALE in Architettura - Progettazione urbana LM-4 N0 POLLIO BRUNA
Programme
Aim of the course: provide students basic knowledge of Botany and Vegetal Ecology related to patterns, processes and paradigms in Landscape Ecology and Urban Ecology.CONTENTS
Elements of Botany: Structure and Function of Vascular Plants - Photosynthesis process– C3 and C4 plants - Life forms and Chorotypes.
Systematic Botany - Flora and Vegetation - Native and aliens plants, archeophytes and neophytes, spontaneous and cultivated plants in urban and peri-urban areas. Anthropocene and Wilderness management.
Vegetation structure – Plants Community - Vegetation dynamics – Phytosociology - Biomes and Ecoregions.
Phytogeography - Mediterranean biogeographical region– World mediterranean ecozones.
Ecosystem - Biocenosis – Biotope – Landscape.
Latium Green Landscape: mediterranean, submontan and riparian vegetation, Roman Campagna (Countryside) as anthropic steppe.
Nature’s gradients in the Landscape: naturals, semi-naturals, rurals, artificial (parks and gardens, urban and industrials settlements) ecosystems.
Matter cycles and energy flows in natural and urban ecosystems. The city as a dissipative system
Habitat, definition and classification scheme based on Habitats Directive; list of threatened regional endemic habitats objects of conservation and protection measures: SIC, ZSC e ZPS; Hot-spots and Vegetation Red Lists of endagered species.
Landscape Ecology: patch - matrix - corridor model, buffer zone, ecological network.
Habitat fragmentation and connettivity, Genetic drift, Biodiversity in natural and urban areas.
Flora and vegetation in urban environment and natural habitat, arboreal composition and dynamics of periurban and urban green, taxonomy of forest, wood, countryside and streetscape, trees morphology, physiology and ecosystem services.
Core Documentation
Ecologia:E. ODUM, 1987 – Ecologia. Zanichelli
Vegetazione:
PIGNATTI S. et al., 1995 - Ecologia vegetale. UTET
POLUNIN O. e WALTERS M., 1987 – Guida alle vegetazioni d'Europa. Zanichelli
Ecologia del paesaggio:
RICHARD T T FORMAN, 1995 - Land Mosaics The Ecology of Landscapes and Regions. Cambridge University Press
Ecologia urbana
RICHARD T T FORMAN, 2014 - Urban Ecology Science of Cities
Cambridge University Press
DUNCAN GOODWIN 2017 The Urban Tree
Routledge
Type of delivery of the course
The course is conducted through frontal classroom lessons with projection of explanatory slides. The teaching material will be made available to the students online. At least two excursions will take place in open fields of natural and semi-natural areas. DIDACTIC METHOD Lectures with projection of texts and images; Written reports ‘in itinere’ to be filled by students after open field exursions; Guide to the preparation of an herbarium with plant samples of the project area.Attendance
Students participation is defined by our "Regolamento didattico" (at least 75% of presence of the student to the teacher's lessons).Type of evaluation
Active participation in classroom and reviews; Compilation and discussion of written tests related to field exursions; Final discussion of the green project at the end of the Course.