Unit PLANT ECOLOGY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING

Course
Civil and environmental engineering
Study-unit Code
A003065
Curriculum
Ingegneria ambientale
Teacher
Marco Fornaciari Da Passano
Teachers
  • Marco Fornaciari Da Passano
  • Fabio Orlandi (Codocenza)
Hours
  • 32 ore - Marco Fornaciari Da Passano
  • 8 ore (Codocenza) - Fabio Orlandi
CFU
5
Course Regulation
Coorte 2021
Offered
2022/23
Learning activities
Affine/integrativa
Area
Attività formative affini o integrative
Academic discipline
BIO/03
Type of study-unit
Opzionale (Optional)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa monodisciplinare
Language of instruction
Italian
Contents

Introduction to Environment and Ecosystem. Agroecosystem and Urban ecosystem. Introduction to Floristic and Vegetation. Urban Green
Reference texts

PIGNATTI - Ecologia Vegetale, UTET, Torino 1995
MAUSETH - Botanica e Biodiversità, IDELSON-GNOCCHI, Napoli 2006
TOWNSEND - L'essenziale di Ecologia - ZANICHELLI, Bologna 2005
Educational objectives

First knowledge of the elements that define the Environment and the Ecosystem. Provide the principles of Floristics and related analysis tools. Provide the principles of vegetation and related analysis tools. Classification and characteristics of urban green.
Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of plant biology
Teaching methods

Frontal lessons (also on line) and practical training.
Other information

February 2022-June 2022
Learning verification modality

Oral examination (also on line).
Extended program

Introduction to Plant Ecology: plants, their evolution, histological, anatomical and morphological characteristics and their relationship with the environment. Biotic and abiotic environmental factors, habitat, ecological niche, biocenosis, ecosystem. Introduction to Floristics and its analysis applied to the environment. Introduction to biological forms and chorotypes. Introduction to Vegetation and its applications to environmental studies. Main Vegetation analysis tools. Definition and characteristics of the Urban Ecosystem. Classification of Urban Green and its environmental characteristics.
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