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20402512 METHODS AND TECHNIQUES IN VEGETATION ECOLOGY in Ecosystems Biodiversity and Management LM-6 (professor to define)
(syllabus)
DEFINITION AND PROPERTIES OF PLANT COMMUNITIES. DISCRETE AND CONCRETE COMMUNITIES. ZONES AND BANDS OF VEGETATION. 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 (SYN- AND GEOSYNPHYTOSOCIOLOGY). 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.
(reference books)
BRECKLE S.W., 2002. Walter’s Vegetation of the Earth.Springer. VAN DER MAAREL E. (Ed.), 2005. Vegetation Ecology. Blackwell Publishing.
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