Biogeography

Year
0
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
01013864
Subject Area
Área Científica do Menor
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Elective
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

Theoretical lessons will be expositive, however, will try whenever possible to appeal to the intervention of the students. The practical classes consist of laboratory work to learn identifying plant species using floras. There will be work in the classroom with the handling of climate data. There will be at least one field output.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to prepare students to understand how environmental factors may lead the difference of terrestrial vegetation distribution and their interconnection with other biophysical factors. Thus, the role played by terrestrial physical factors on plants and vegetation will be explained.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. What is Biogeogrphy?

2. History of Ecology/Biogeography.

3. Habitats, environments and niches.

4. Climate and life – sunlight, temperature, wetness.

5.  Substrate and life – soil: composition, pedogenesis, classification

6. Topography and life - altitude, exposure, slopes

7. Disturbances

7.1. Physical: wind, water, fire

7.2 Biological: diseases, herbivory, man

8. Earth History and key ecological processes

8.1. Glaciations

- Pleistocene biogeographic dynamics: Extent and causes of glaciation; effects in areas not glaciated; biogeographic responses to glaciation, glacial cycles and extinctions.

Head Lecturer(s)

Albano Augusto Figueiredo Rodrigues

Assessment Methods

Continuous Assessment
Resolution Problems: 25.0%
Frequency: 75.0%

Bibliography

BARBOUR, BURK & PITTS (1987) – Terrestrial Plant Ecology, 2nd ed., The Benjamim/Cummings, Menlo Park, USA

DUCHAUFOUR, PH. (1983) – Pédologie. I. Pédogenèse et Classification. 2ª ed., Paris, Masson, 491 p.

GUREVITCH, SCHEINER & FOX (2006) – The ecology of plants, 2nd ed., Sinauer Ass., Sunderland, USA

HUGGETT, R. J. (2004) – Fundamentals of Biogeography, 2nd ed., Routledge, UK

LOMOLINO, RIDDLE & BROWN (2006) – Biogeography, 3rd ed., Sinauer Ass., Sunderland, USA

SOLTNER, DOMINIQUE (1987-88) – Les bases de la production végétale. Angers, Coll. Sciences et Techniques Agricoles, Tome I - 456 p., Tome II – 307 p.

DAJOZ, R. (2005) – Princípios de Ecologia, 7ª ed., S. Paulo

DROUIN, JEAN-MARC (1991) – Reinventar a Natureza. A ecologia e a sua história. Lisboa, Instituto Piaget, 179 p.

GARCIA, F. F. (1995), Manual de Climatologia Aplicada, Medio Ambiente y Planificación. Editorial Sintesis, Madrid