Environmental Botany and agronomy
Academic Year 2016/2017 - 1° Year- AGRONOMIA AMBIENTALE ED ECOLOGIA: Paolo Guarnaccia
- Environmental Botany: Alessia Restuccia
Scientific field
- AGR/02 - Agronomy and field crops
- BIO/03 - Environmental and applied botany
Term / Semester: 2°
Learning Objectives
- AGRONOMIA AMBIENTALE ED ECOLOGIA
This course provides the foundation for the study of quantitative relationships between human activities and environment through the knowledge concerning the structural and functional characteristics of natural ecosystems and agro-ecosystems. The course also aims to analyze human intervention on the factors determining agricultural production and their influence on the environment. The purpose is to identify methods and techniques for the construction of sustainable interventions on the territory.
- Environmental Botany
The course aims to provide information about systematics, phylogenetics, taxonomic categories and botanical nomenclature, morphology, biology and ecology of Spermatophyta, environmental factors that regulate plants distribution, world plant formations and plant associations of the Mediterranean landscape. The student will acquire knowledge about plant cell, structure and morphology of Gymnosperms and Angiosperms, bioclimatic indices, phytoclimatic classifications, ecomorphology, plant life forms, geographical distribution of plant species, phytocoenosis and methodology for vegetation survey.
Detailed Course Content
- AGRONOMIA AMBIENTALE ED ECOLOGIA
The course provides the basic knowledge about the habitat and the main ecological factors that regulate the formation and the characteristics of biological communities. Afterwards the course covers all the topics related to the structure, the energy flow and the cycle of matter in natural and agricultural ecosystems, defining the main components of the primary and secondary production and the processes that govern the development, the stability and the evolution as a function of the presence of ecological factors and the availability of resources. Finally the course examines the causes of the ecological crisis of modern agriculture, the development of agro-ecological thinking and the design of sustainable agricultural systems.
- Environmental Botany
The prokaryotic and eukaryotic cell
The plant cell and cycle
Evolution and systematic
The Spermatophyta: Gymnosperms and Angiosperms
general characteristics, reproduction and systematic
Climate and soil
Main bioclimatic indices and classifications
Ecomorphology
Biological forms and growth forms
Geographical distribution of plant species
Areal
Phytocoenoses
Vegetation analysis
Textbook Information
- AGRONOMIA AMBIENTALE ED ECOLOGIA
1. Giardini L., Agronomia generale, ambientale ed aziendale. Patron Editore
2. Altieri M.A., Nicholls C.I. and Ponti L., Agroecologia. Edagricole
3. Caporali F., Ecologia per l’agricoltura. UTET
4. Pignatti S., Ecologia vegetale. UTET
5. Caporali F., Campiglia E. e Mancinelli R., Agroecologia. Teoria e pratica degli agroecosistemi. Città Studi Edizioni
6. Baldoni G. Ecologia ed Agricoltura. Edagricole
7. Loomis, R.S., Connor, D.J., 1992. Crop ecology: productivity and management in agricultural systems. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
8. Odum E.P., 1992. Basi di ecologia. Piccin, Padova.
9. Ferrari M., Marconi E., Marconi M. e Menta A., Ecologia Agraria, Edagricole
10. Vismara R., Ecologia applicata. Hoepli
11. Sussidi didattici forniti dal docente (presentazioni ppt delle lezioni, dispense sugli argomenti trattati)
- Environmental Botany
1- Biologia delle piante – T.L. Rost, M.G. Barbour, C.R. Stocking, T.M. Murphy - Zanichelli
2- Ecologia vegetale – Sandro Pignatti – UTET