Learning objectives
The students will acquire the ability of interpreting plant landscape and will become able of managing the plant resources and preserving plant biodiversity.
Course unit content
Study of the relationships between plant taxa and environment, investigated at individual, population and plant community level. Study of the geographic distribution the plants and of their responses to the variations of the main climatic and soil parameters. Identification, classification and dynamics of plant communities.
Bibliography
Ozenda P., 1982. Les végétaux dans la biosphère. Doin Editeurs, Paris.
Pignatti S., 1994. Ecologia del paesaggio. UTET, Torino. (*)
Pignatti S., 1995. Ecologia vegetale. UTET, Torino. (*)
Ubaldi D.,2003. Flora, fitocenosi e ambiente. Elementi di Geobotanica e Fitosociologia. CLUEB.
Larcher W., Physiological Plant Ecology,2003. Springer.
Teaching methods
lessons in the classroom and study exscursion in the field