ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Higher Polytechnic Engineering School
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
To introduce students to the knowledge of the concepts of carbon and nutrient cycles and the water cycle as well as in the use of models for these cycles. This knowledge and tools will be useful in the proposal and assessment of forest management alternatives.
The memory of the degree includes for this course the following contents: Models for nutrition management and nutrient cycling in forests. Replenishment of nutrients through natural processes and fertilization. Balance of water, nutrients and carbon. Environmental benefits. Models of carbon sequestration in forests.
These contents will be developed according to the following list of units:
I. Introduction and essential nutrients
II. Essential processes in nutrient cycling
III. The water cycle. The carbon cycle
IV. Macronutrients cycles
V. Nutritional status: visual diagnosis
VI. Nutritional status: foliar diagnosis and fertilization trials
VII. Fertilizers for forest use
VIII. Applied forest fertilization
IX. Nutritional management of plantations
X. Interactive. Process and water consumption models
XI. Tutorial. Carbon fixation models
XII. Interactive. Visit to experimental plots of ash and fertilizer application
-Dell, B., Malajczuk, N., Xu, D., Grove, T. S., 2001. Nutrient disorders in plantation eucalypts, 2nd edn. ACIAR Monograph No.74. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra, Australia, 188 pp.
-Fisher, R.F., Binkley, D., 2000. Ecology and management of forest soils. Wiley, 489 pp.
-Attiwill, PM, Adams, MA., Nutrition of Eucalypts, CSIRO PUblishing
-Bonneau, M., 1995. La fertilization des forêts dans les pays tempérés. ENGREF, Nancy, 367 pp
-Will, GM., Nutrient deficiencies and fertilizer use in New Zealand exotic forests. FRI Bulletin 97. Rotorua, 53 pp.
-Bará, S., 1990. Fertilización forestal. Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
-Barker, Allen V., Pilbeam, David J. 2007. Handbook of plant nutrition. CRC Press, 613 pp.
The student passing this course will know::
- COM6-06: The processes of nutrient, carbon and water cycling in productive and natural ecosystems.
- COM6-07: Thje methodologies of model development for nutrient cycling and water consumption of forest systems.
Moreover, he will he capable of:
- HAM6-06: Evaluate the sustainability of different management systems and their environmental benefits.
This course would contribute to the acquisition of the specialization competence:
- CEM6-01: Ability to develop growth and yield models for forest systems and to implemtn them in simulators for forecasting.
Teaching will include classroom activities, both presentational (9 h) and interactive (12 h), as well as laboratory and field practices.
The presentational teaching will include summaries and general analysis of the state of the art in key issues, guiding the students to access supplementary information in their personal work. In the interactive classes, the exercises carried out by the students will be discussed and laboratory practices or field visits, in particular to experimental plots, will be made. The attendance to classes is considered necessary to pass the course.
The specific methodologies to be used will be:
- Participatory master lectures.
- Field practices.
- Use of the virtual classroom
- Performing computer presentations
- Resolution of exercises
- Individualized Tutoring
The student evaluation will be done through a combination of the following:
Attendance at lectures and interactive classes (compulsory). 20% weight.
Written tests: 40%. Competences covered: COM6-06 and COM6-07
Delivery of exercises and assignments: 40%. Competences: HAM6-06 and CEM6-01
The time corresponding to 3 ECTS. The memory of the Master includes 2 hours for group work, 18 hours for reading and studying, 5h for completion of exercises, 8 h to prepare practices and further working on them, 5h to elaborate presentations, 10 hours to prepare exams, and 3 h to perform exams.
Class attendance and use of the tutorial hours of professors.
Materia en extinción en el curso 2025/26, no hay actividades docentes presenciales, pero los estudiantes tienen derecho a evaluación, en la que se aplicará el mesmo sistema indicado antes, tanto en el caso do alumnado que decida asistir a la docencia impartida en la asignatura del plan nuevo como para o alumnado que no asista
Roque Rodríguez Soalleiro
- Department
- Plant Production and Engineering Projects
- Area
- Plant Production
- roque.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor