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DEFINITION AND PROPERTIES OF PLANT COMMUNITIES. STRUCTURAL AND PHYSIOGNOMICAL CHARACTER OF VEGETATION. DISCRETE AND CONCRETE COMMUNITIES. ZONES AND BANDS OF VEGETATION. CONCEPT OF ZONALITY, AZONALITY AND EXTRAZONALITY. VEGETATION DYNAMICS AND POTENTIAL NATURAL VEGETATION.
GROWTH FORMS AND PLANT TRAITS. ANALYSES OF THE FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY AND GRIME’S STRATEGIES (C-S-R). DIVERSITY ANALYSES: GENERAL CONCEPT, ALGORITHMS CALCULATION, RAREFACTION CURVE, ABUNDANCE/DOMINANCE RANK, RE’NY CURVES. SAMPLING METHODS OF THE PLANT COMMUNITIES (RANDOM AND SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING). SIZE AND DISTRIBUTION OF SAMPLES. ABUNDANCE MEASURES. ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE PHYTOSOCIOLOGY AND SYMPHYTOSOCIOLOGY.
GENERAL CONCEPT OF THE VEGETATION MAPPING. VEGETATION AND HABITAT INTERPRETATION (EUNIS AND ALL. I OF THE 92/43/CEE DIRECTIVE. HABITATS MONITORING, EUROPEAN AND NATIONAL RED LISTS OF HABITAT. MULTITEMPORAL ANALYSIS, ANTHROPIC IMPACT AND EFFECT OF VEGETATION.

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