GEOBOTANY
cod. 1005140

Academic year 2012/13
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Botanica ambientale e applicata (BIO/03)
Field
Discipline ecologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
42 hours
of face-to-face activities
6 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
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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.

Prerequisites

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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.

Full programme

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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

Assessment methods and criteria

oral examination

Other information

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