2019/2020

2019/2020

DM270

BIO/03 (ENVIRONMENTAL AND APPLIED BOTANICS)

DEPARTMENT OF EARTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

NATURAL SCIENCES

PERCORSO COMUNE

1°

2nd semester (02/03/2020 - 12/06/2020)

6

54 lesson hours

Italian

WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST

MONDONI ANDREA (titolare) - 6 ECTS

English; fluent Italian. Basic background of plant ecology, sytematic and general botany.

Provide a theoretical and scientific knowledge base on sampling, monitoring and assessment of the conservation status of endangered wild flora. Understanding the effects of climate change and other threats on plants and being able to undertake actions to halt biodiversity loss. Learn and be able to act in a regulatory framework of plant conservation, at both local and global scales. The training program of this course is updated with the action plan of the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development, with particular reference to objectives 13 (Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts) and 15 (Sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, halt and reverse land degradation, halt biodiversity loss

Aspects of Conservation Biology - the course illustrates the conservation threat factors (IUCN classification), with insight into climate change. Then it will analyze the methods of assessment of the extinction risk, what are and how can be realized the Red Lists, with examples.

Translocations – the course illustrates the types of translocations on wild flora and ecological and technical-operational implications. Concrete cases, with field trips and analysis of projects (Life, etc.) will be examined.

Plant monitoring - basic plant monitoring techniques will be treated as well as techniques for monitoring the species listed in the European Directive 92/43/EEC

Seed ecology and conservation – the course covers theoretical and applied topics on seed science, with particular focus on those related to plant conservation issues. It will illustrate the most advanced research fields on seeds.

Legislation – During the course, the legislation on biodiversity conservation (CBD, GSPC, ESPC; Berne; Whashington CITES; Dir. 92/43 EEC Habitat) will be developed.

The course includes lectures and field excursions. Lectures are based on Power Points presentations, which are available for the students on the platform KIRO, in the course section. Field excursions, which may be of one or more days, include practical and demonstrative activities of the concepts learned during the lectures.

Ferrari C., 2011. Biodiversità. Dal genoma al paesaggio. Zanichelli

Texts provided by the teacher and available on KIRO

Examination will consist of a written test and an oral test.
The written exam is compulsory for all students and provides 10 open questions; Each question is awarded a 3-point score for a total of 30/30.
The oral test is optional to improve the score obtained in the written test; The oral test, in the form of an interview, will cover the subjects covered in the written test and the entire course program.
Grades of all students (including those who have directly accepted the written test grade without taking the oral exam) will be recorded on the closing date of the final oral exam.

All the lectures (slides) and other study materials are uploaded on the platform KIRO, available on line to all the students.