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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Bioloxía |
 Subjects |
| Botanical Geography: Geobotany |
| Methodologies |
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| Identifying Data | 2019/20 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Botanical Geography: Geobotany | Code | 610G02026 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Methodologies | Description |
| Case study | The students (in pairs or small groups) will identify and mapthe different plant communities in an area chosen by the teachers. Subsequently, they will write a report including all their findings as well as a complete inventory of the different communities. This report will be submitted as the final task of the course. |
| Field trip | Short fieldwork sessions will be conducted in nearby areas practice the different basic methods of vegetation analysis. Special attention will be paid to frequent vegetation types in Galicia: forests, coastal shrublands, etc. |
| Laboratory practice | The students will use the laboratory sessions for the study and identification of the samples taken while conducting their case study. |
| Guest lecture / keynote speech | The teachers will introduce the basic concepts of the course presentations and other resources that will be available to the students. |
| Seminar | During the seminars, the students will become familiar with some basic computer methods for vegetation ordination, classification and analysis. In these seminars, the students will use the data generated by them in the field and also data provide by the teachers. Seminars are oriented to the completion of the case study. |
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