Plant Ecology of Mountain Environments

The learning objectives of the course are:
- provide the main notions of plant ecology (autoecology and synecology, potential vegetation and current vegetation, environment and biodiversity)
- analyse plant adaptation to climatic factors
- analyse the plant adaptation to edaphic factors
- analyse the adaptation of mountain plants to biotic and abiotic disturbances
- provide methods for the study of flora and vegetation (ecological indices, the phytosociological method, the CSR functional strategy)

At the end of the course, students will be able to:
- know the plant adaptations to the main factors (biotic and abiotic) that regulate mountain environments
- know and apply the methods that allow the ecological analysis of flora and vegetation
- analyse and understand the data returned by ecological studies of flora and/or vegetation