Ecology of Vegetation - W 1400-216EKOR-W
Lectures:
* Defining plant community; basic concepts. Vegetation ecology as a subdivision of community ecology and a branch of geobotany.
* Methods of vegetation sampling and data analysis; an overview of classic and current numerical techniques.
* Main approaches to vegetation typology. Foundations of the classification system of plant communities developed within the European phytosociological school; the idea of diagnostic species and characteristic species combination.
* Factors affecting species composition of plant communities; the contribution of natural environmental factors (light, warm, humidity, nutrient availability), plant traits, history of the flora and species interactions.
* Natural climatic and edaphic gradients as environmental controls of vegetation variation at the local, regional and global levels. Zonal, azonal and extrazonal plant communities. Survey of the main types of natural plant communities in Poland.
* Annual cycles, fluctuations and directive changes within plant communities. Succession patterns, mechanisms and prediction. The climax concept and the idea of the potential natural vegetation.
* Man influence on vegetation; synanthropization and hemeroby concepts; the invasive alien species issues. An outline of anthropogenic replacement plant communities.
* Geographical distribution of plant communities; vegetation mapping. Geobotanical subdivisions of Poland.
* Applying vegetation ecology to nature conservation, spatial planning and management.
Type of course
Bibliography
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Kornaś J., Medwecka-Kornaś A. Geografia roślin. (Plant geography). PWN 2002.
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