Ecology of Vegetation - W

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Course ID:	1400-216EKOR-W
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.204 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0532) Earth science The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Ecology of Vegetation - W
Name in Polish:	Ekologia roślinności -W
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Biology
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty obieralne na studiach drugiego stopnia na kierunku bioinformatyka Elective subjects
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	elective monographs
Short description:	The course is intended to introduce a branch of plant ecology concerned with variation in vegetation cover in relation to environmental factors, the area of research also known in Europe as phytocenology or phytosociology. Main objectives of the course are: a) to provide students with basic skills required to vegetation description and analysis, especially to define and recognize plant communities, and to explore relationships between vegetation and environmental controls; b) to teach students understanding patterns in spatial and temporal variation in vegetation within ecological framework; c) to outline main features of the vegetation cover of Poland.
Full description:	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.
Bibliography:	Matuszkiewicz W. Przewodnik do oznaczania zbiorowisk roślinnych Polski. (A key to plant communities of Poland). PWN 2001 i n. Matuszkiewicz J.M. Zespoły leśne Polski (Forest associations of Poland.). PWN 2001 i n. Wysocki Cz., Sikorski P. Zarys fitosocjologii stosowanej. (An outline of applied phytosociology) Wydawnictwo SGGW 2000 i n. Kaźmierczak E. (red.). Metody numeryczne w badaniach struktury i funkcjonowania szaty roślinnej. (Computer methods in investigation of the structure and functioning of vegetation cover). Wydawnictwa UMK Toruń 1998. Kornaś J., Medwecka-Kornaś A. Geografia roślin. (Plant geography). PWN 2002. Falińska K. Ekologia roślin.(Plant Ecology) PWN 2004. Szafer W., Zarzycki K. (red.) Szata roślinna Polski. (Plant cover of Poland). PWN 1972 i n. Kent M., Coker P. Vegetation description and analysis - a practical approach. Wiley&Sons 1992 i n. Dierschke H. Pflanzensoziologie. (Phytosociology). Ulmer Verlag, Stuttgart1994 i n. Jongman R.H.G., Ter Braak C.J.F., van Tongeren O.F.R. (red.) Data analysis in community and landscape ecology. Cambridge University Press 1995 i n.
Learning outcomes:	(in Polish) Po ukończeniu kursu student - rozumie ogólne zależności warunkujące zróżnicowanie zbiorowisk roślinnych w przestrzeni i czasie; - uzyskuje zarys wiedzy na temat głównych kierunków zróżnicowania roślinności Polski; - orientuje się w przyjętym w Polsce fitosocjologicznym systemie klasyfikacji zbiorowisk i potrafi się nim poprawnie posługiwać;
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	(in Polish) Zaliczenie na podstawie egzaminu

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