Programme

BALANCE CLIMATE-SOIL-VEGETATION. DEFINITION OF PLANT COMMUNITIES. MAIN FEATURES OF THE VEGETATION. VEGETATION ZONES AND VEGETATION BELTS. ZONAL, EXTRAZONAL, AZONAL VEGETATION. VEGETATION DYNAMICS AND POTENTIAL NATURAL VEGETATION.
BIOLOGICAL AND LIFE FORM, GRIME STRATEGIES (C-S-R), FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY, PLANT TRAITS AND FUNCTIONAL GROUPS.
METHODS OF VEGETATION STUDY (RANDOM AND SYSTEMATIC), DIVERSITY ANALYSIS: GENERAL CONCEPT AND CALCULATION METHODS (RAREFACTION CURVE, ABUNDANCE-DOMINANCE, RENY CURVES). PHYTOSOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH, GEO- AND SYNPHYTOSOCIOLOGY.
VEGETATION MAPPING OF THE COMMUNITIES AND PLANT LANDSCAPES. VEGETATION AND HABITAT’S INTEPRETEATION (EUNIS CLASSIFICATION AND ALL. I OF THE HABITAT DIRECTIVE).
MONITORING AND RED LIST OF THE HABITATS. MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS. HUMAN IMPACT AND EFFECT ON VEGETATION.

Core Documentation

TESTI ADOTTATI
BRECKLE S.-W., 2002. WALTER’S VEGETATION OF THE EARTH. SPRINGER.
VAN DER MAAREL E. (ED.), 2005. VEGETATION ECOLOGY. BLACKWELL PUBLISHING.
KENT M., COKER P., 1992. VEGETATION DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS. JOHN WILWY & SONS.
CRISTEA V., GAFTA D., PEDROTTI F., 2015. FITOSOCIOLOGIA. TEMI ED.
PEDROTTI F., 2013. PLANT AND VEGETATION MAPPING. SPRINGER.

Type of delivery of the course

LECTURES, SEMINARS, FIELD ACTIVITIES AND GROUPS WORK (PLANT IDENTIFICATION AND DATA ANALYSIS).

Type of evaluation

LEARNING VERIFICATION TAKES PLACE THROUGH AN ORAL EXAM (30 MINUTES) RELATED TO THE TOPICS COVERED DURING THE COURSE, AND DURING PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES. FURTHERMORE, THE MAIN FEATURES (OBJECTIVES, METHODS AND RESULTS) OF A SCIENTIFIC PAPER USING ACADEMIC JOURNALS CHOSEN BY THE CANDIDATE ARE DISCUSSED.