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BIODIVERSITY AND FUNCTIONS OF THE ECOSYSTEM
cod. 18882

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Botanica ambientale e applicata (BIO/03)
Field
Discipline ambientali
Type of training activity
Characterising
12 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
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Integrated course unit module: PROCESSES AND GLOBAL CHANGE

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Learning objectives

This part of the course provides updated informations on hypotheses and models concerning the effects of the Global Change on mountain ecosystems.

Prerequisites

<br />Learnings of  geobotany and climatology are requested..

Course unit content

<br />POTENTIAL IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON VEGETATION: THE EFFECTS ON MOUNTAIN ECOSYSTEMS<br /><br /><br />a) Mountain systems as “hot spots” of plant diversity<br />b) Present and predicted climate changes on the mountains of the world<br />c) Potential responses of plant species to increasing temperatures: -1) persistence in situ (adaptation mechanisms); - 2) migration; - 3) Population fragmentation and extinction. <br />d) Potential responses of plant species to increasing CO2. <br /><br />e) Potential responses of plant to increasing concentration of trpospheric ozone.<br />f)  Potential responses of  vegetation: -1) ecotonal  shifts; - 2) changements in the floristic assessments; - 3) structural modifications.<br />g) The GLORIA project<br />h) Soil eutrophication in the mountain ecosystems   - 1) different responses of bryophytes and vascular plants; - 2) compositional and structural modifications.

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Bibliography

<br />Theurillat J.P. & Guisan A., 2001. Potential impact of climate change on vegetation in the European Alps: a review. Climatic change 50: 77-109.<br />Messerli B. & Ives J.D., 1997. Mountains of the world. A global priority. Parthenon Publishing Group, New York.<br />Korner C., 1999. Alpine plant life. Springer, Berlin.<br />The GLORIA field Manual - Multi-Summit approach. European Commission, EUR 21213. 

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