Università Roma Tre

At the end of the course, the students will have learned the basic concepts on the main morpho-structural differences of plant organisms according to their adaptations to different environments. They will be able to identify and explain form-function relationships in the plants. They will be able to recognize the most representative and dominant species of the main plant coenoses of the Italian landscape. In the field of applied botany, the students will have discovered the many uses, traditional and modern, that plant species can have. They will know the use of plant species as climatic, edaphic and anthropic disturbance descriptors and as bioindicators of environmental quality and phytoremediation agents of contaminated waters and soils. They will know the issues related to alien plant species (introduction, ecosystem impact, management and control methodologies). Basic concepts of forensic botany will be acquired. Through laboratory and field exercises, the students will acquire techniques and methodologies to sample and identify plant species and analyze and know how to interpret the collected flora and vegetation data.