Teaching GuideTerm
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Grao en Bioloxía
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  Botanical Geography: Geobotany
   Contents
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Lectures 1: Introduction 1. Geobotany and Plant Geography. Links with other biological sciences.
Lectures 2: Phytochorology and Phytocoenology (Plant Geography and Ecology) 2. Plant geographical distribution areas; typology. Cosmopolitism. Edemicity. Migration routes and relict elements. Chorology. Molecular methods in the study of plant chorology and biogeography.
3. Biogeographic areas. Typology of land phytocoenosis (plant communities). The Holarctic Kingdom. Delimitation and bioclimatic characterization. Biogeographic units in the North Atlantic. Oceanographic delimitation and characterization.
4. Vegetation structure. Physical structure; vertical and horizontal structure. Biological structure. Vegetation dynamics. Plant succession and vegetation series. Potential vegetation (climax community). Degradation and secondary succession. Progressive and regressive series.
5. Methodology for the study and classification of plant communities. Historic background. Physiognomic method. Sigmatism.
Lectures 3: Land vegetation 6. The Holarctic Kingdom. Vegetation of the Eurosiberian, Mediterranean and Macaronesian regions.
7. The Iberian Peninsula. Eurosiberian region; chorological provinces. Delimitation and bioclimatic characterization. Relevant and characteristic plant communities. Mediterranean region; chorological provinces. Delimitation and bioclimatic characterization. Relevant and characteristic plant communities.
8. Vegetation in Galicia; characterization. Forests, characteristics and phytosociology. Class Pino-Juniperetea. Class Querco-Fagetea. Class Quercetea ilicis.
9. Forests, characteristics and phytosociology. Class Cytisetea scopario-striatii. Class Calluno-Ulicetea and Class Cisto-Lavanduletea.
10. Plants at the margins. Coastline vegetation. Hygrophilous and hydrophylous vegetation. Saxicolous vegetation. Ruderal plant communities.
Lectures 4: Introduction to marine vegetation 11. Vegetation in the sea. Introduction, main features and differences with the land. Divisions in the marine environments. Ecological factors that influence on the distribution of the marine phytobenthos. Physical, chemical and biological factors affecting the marine phytobenthos.
12. Phytobenthonic ecology. Biological forms, life cycles and adaptations to the marine environment. Main features of the phytobenthonic communities.
13. Biogeography of marine organisms. Vertical and horizontal dimensions in the distribution of marine vegetation. Succession in marine plant communities.
14. Benthic marine vegetation in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. Benthic vegetation in Galicia. Coastline typology and main vegetation units.
Seminars - Introduction to the analysis of floristic inventories.
- Ordination and classification of inventories from marine (algae) and land plant communities.
- Analysis of the physical, biological and chorological structure in marine (algae) and land plant communities.
- Methodology of phenological studies.
Laboratory sessions - Field sessions to work in the recognison and in situ analysis (floristic inventories) of plant and algae communities.
- Lab sessions working on the identification of the samples collected in the field.
Case studies - Comprehensive study of the flora and vegetation of a previously selected territory.
- Phenological studies on selected plants from "Monte da Fraga"
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