Unit VEGETATION SCIENCE
- Course
- Biological sciences
- Study-unit Code
- GP003057
- Curriculum
- Ambientale - naturalistico
- Teacher
- Corrado Marceno'
- Teachers
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- Corrado Marceno'
- Hours
- 42 ore - Corrado Marceno'
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2023/24
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- BIO/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- In the first part of the course, I will introduce the concept of
environmental variables and, therefore, the biotic and abiotic factors that
contribute to determining the different compositions of plant
communities. I will introduce the concepts of life forms, traits, and
chorotypes and how these can be used as indicators. Students will have
the opportunity to carry out surveys in the field by recording the
vegetation data and the environmental variables. In the second part of
the course, I will introduce the concept of phytosociology with a brief
excursus on the history of vegetation. Finally, the main classes of
vegetation in Europe will be shown with a particular emphasis on the
Umbrian territory. The course will be accompanied by vegetation
cartography laboratories using the open-source QGIS and laboratories on
data storage and processing - Reference texts
- - Lecture notes
- JUICE: https://www.sci.muni.cz/botany/juice/JUICEman_all.pdf
- QGIS: https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/it/docs/user_manual/index.html
- TURBOVEG: https://www.synbiosys.alterra.nl/turboveg/tvwin.pdf - Educational objectives
- At the end of the course, students will acquire the keys for reading and
interpreting the landscape. Students will be able to apply different
methodologies to data vegetation sampling and environmental variables,
directly in the field or to use national and international databases to
recover them. Students will also be able to perform data storing,
classification, and analysis of vegetation data. Particular attention will be
given to the vegetation of the Umbria region. - Teaching methods
- - Traditional lectures, supported by PPT images, accompanied by
interactive teaching.
- Fieldwork
- Lab-based course on QGIS
- Lab-based course on data-storing usingTURBOVEG.
- Lab-based course on vegetation data analysis using JUICE - Learning verification modality
- Final oral exam: Students will have to answer questions on the topics
covered during the course and field activities - Extended program
- Le variabili ambientali. Fattori biotici e abiotici. Radiazione solare,
temperatura, umidità dell’aria, precipitazioni, la pressione e i venti. Indici
bioclimatici. Diagrammi climatici. Classificazioni del Clima. Bioclimi
dell’Italia. Clima e vegetazione. Substrato e suolo. I processi elementari di
pedogenesi. Profili e orizzonti. Distribuzione dei suoli secondo la
latitudine.
- La Flora: concetti generali, diversità floristica. Forme biologiche (il
sistema Raunkier). Corotipi. Specie esotiche. Traits
- Fitosociologia: l’approccio quali-quantitativo. Concetti generali, metodi,
l’associazione vegetale. Competizione e disturbo.
- Storia della vegetazione.
- Articolazione del territorio. Concetti generali, zone di vegetazione, fasce
altitudinali. Successioni.
- La vegetazione in Europa.
- La vegetazione dell’Umbria.
- Cartografia della vegetazione. Distribuzione della vegetazione sul
territorio. Carta della vegetazione reale e potenziale. Costruzione della
carta della vegetazione. Basi cartografiche.
- Data storing ed elaborazione dei dati.