- 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