Unit MONITORING VEGETATION SYSTEMS
- Course
- Biology
- Study-unit Code
- A001061
- Curriculum
- Bioambientale
- Teacher
- Corrado Marceno'
- Teachers
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- Corrado Marceno'
- Hours
- 47 ore - Corrado Marceno'
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2022
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline del settore biodiversità e ambiente
- Academic discipline
- BIO/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- English
- Contents
- Plant communities and their ecological features. The Habitat Directive 92/43 / EEC. The European classification systems (Natura 2000, EUNIS, Corine Biotopes, and Corine Land Cover). The Umbria region's Special Conservation Areas (SACs) and Special Protection Areas (ZPS). Habitats' pressures and threats with particular attention to climate change and invasive species. The Umbria region's invasive, endemic, and rare species. Vegetation monitoring methods. Elements of vegetation cartography.
- Reference texts
- - Lecture notes
- Angelini P., Casella L., Grignetti A., Genovesi P., (ed.). Manuali per il monitoraggio di specie e habitat di interesse comunitario (Direttiva 92/43/CEE) in Italia: habitat. ISPRA, Serie Manuali e Linee Guida, 142/2016. https://www.isprambiente.gov.it/public_files/direttiva-habitat/Manuale-142-2016.pdf
- Celesti-Grapow et al., 2010. "Flora vascolare alloctona e invasiva delle regioni d'Italia". http://bot.biologia.unipi.it/chiavi/dpn_flora_alloctona.pdf
- DIRETTIVA 92/43/CEE DEL CONSIGLIO del 21 maggio 1992 relativa alla conservazione degli habitat naturali e seminaturali e della flora e della fauna selvatiche. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CONSLEG:1992L0043:20070101:IT:PDF
- Galasso et al., 2018. “An updated checklist of the vascular flora alien to Italy”: https://flore.unifi.it/retrieve/handle/2158/1118806/312971/Galasso%20et%20al.%20_Alien%20Flora_Italy_PlBiosyst_2018.pdf
- Manuale utente di QGIS: https://docs.qgis.org/3.10/it/docs/user_manual/index.html - Educational objectives
- The course will focus on the Natura 2000 network and the plant species of the Umbria region. At the end of the course, students will acquire the keys to reading and interpreting the landscape. They will know the European regulations for protecting and conserving species and habitats. They will develop the essential skills to organize a monitoring plan critically. Finally, students will increase their cartographic skills using the open-source Qgis.
- Prerequisites
- There are no prerequisites
- Teaching methods
- - Traditional lectures, supported by PPT images, accompanied by interactive teaching.
- Laboratory activity focused on the determination of plant species.
- Field work focused on the monitoring of invasive alien species.
-Lab-based Course on QGIS - Other information
- The course can also be done in English
- Learning verification modality
- Final oral exam: Students will have to answer questions on the topics covered during the course and laboratory activities.
- Extended program
- - Plant Communities, from Phytosociology To The Habitat Directive.
- The Habitats Directive
- European Classification Systems (Natura 2000, Eunis, Corine Biotopes, And Corine Land Cover)
- The Special Conservation Areas (Sacs) And Special Protection Areas (Zps) Of The Umbria Region
- Habitats Of Community Interest (Annex I)
- Aquatic And Riparian Habitats
- Coastal And Halophytic Habitats
- Raised Bogs And Mires And Fens Habitats
- Natural And Semi-Natural Grassland Habitats
- Rocky Habitats
- Temperate Heath And Scrub And Sclerophyllous Scrub
- Forests
- Pressures And Threats
- The Invasive, Endemic, And Rare Species, And The Habitat Directive Species Of The Umbria Region
- Sampling Methodologies And Habitat And Species Monitoring Techniques
- Elements Of Cartography Of Species And Habitats
- Field Activities For Species And Habitat Monitoring
- Laboratory Activities For The Analysis Of The Collected Data
- Cartography Laboratory Activities