28161 - Applied Plant Ecology

Academic Year 2009/2010

  • Docente: Carlo Ferrari
  • Credits: 5
  • SSD: BIO/03
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Environmental Sciences (cod. 8033)

Learning outcomes

Basic information on plants as environmental indicators as well as on methods and outcomes of geobotany, with particular reference of applied vegetation science.

Course contents

Flora and Vegetation: their information. Phytogeography : the distribution of plant species. Geobotany: Life Forms and their ecological information. Vegetation as a spatial phenomenon. Disturbance, stress and biological competition as factors of vegetation diversity. Methods for evaluating the stability of plant communities. Vegetation mapping: principles and application. Vegetation features as tools for evaluating landscape quality.

Readings/Bibliography

Buttler K.P., Guida pratica alla Botanica. Zanichelli, 1986.

Teaching methods

Oral lessons

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

Video-projections

Office hours

See the website of Carlo Ferrari