ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Hours of tutorials: 1 Expository Class: 25 Interactive Classroom: 15 Total: 41
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Botany
Areas: Botany
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (No Implantada)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
- Provide basic knowledge of Geobotany
- Provide the basis for the study and interpretation of plant landscapes.
- Raising awareness of the importance of conservation of landscapes and plant diversity.
- Create the basis for developing critical skills and synthesis of information obtained by consulting various sources.
- Encourage research capacity in Geobotany.
Unit 1. Ecological and historical Geobotany. Historical development of Geobotany. Study methods. (1 hour)
Unit 2: Processes: Speciation. Diversification. Extinction. Dispersion. (2 hours)
Unit 3. Distribution patterns: Areas of distribution. Types of areas. Endemism. Disjunction. Vicariance and dispersalism. (2 hours)
Unit 4. Historical Geobotay: Methods of study. Fossil record. Palynology. Phylogeography. (2 hours)
Unit 5. Historical Geobotany. Evolution of continents. Paleotropical and arctotertiary floras. Climate change. Glaciations. The Iberian NW. Shelters glaciers. Posglaciar recolonization. (1 hour)
Unit 6. Invasive plants (1 hour)
Unit 7. Ecological Geobotany. Plants and the environment. Adaptations. Biological forms. (2 hour)
Unit 8. Methods of analysis and study of vegetation I: Plant communities: Concept and classifications. Biomes. Concept. Characteristics. Distribution. (2 hours)
Unit 9. Methods. II: Phytosociology. Method, systematic and applications. Succession. Vegetation series. (2 hours)
Unit 10. Bioclimatology. Bioclimatic indexs and maps. Bioclimatology of Galicia. (2 hours)
Unit 11. Biogeographic units. Floristic Kingdoms. Biogeographic units of Europe and Galicia. (2 hours)
Unit 12. Galician floristic components. Endemism. Flora vascular threatened. (1 hour)
Unit 13. Galician vegetation. Major forest formations. Characteristics and distribution. (2 hours)
Unit 14. Main scrub formations. Characteristics and distribution. (2 hour)
Unit 15. Galician coastal vegetation. Vexetación fronts. Main communities. (1 hour)
Unit 16.- General view of Galician vegetation. Priority habitats. (1 hours).
A practice field consisting of the study and identification of various plant communities in their natural environment will be made. This practice will be held in the Sierra de O Courel or near Santiago de Compostela depending on the availability of funding.
Basic Bibliography
Alcaraz, F. 1999. Manual de Teoría y Práctica de Geobotánica. Editorial DM. Colección Texto – Guía. ICE. Univ. Murcia
Izco, J., Fitogeografía: origen y distribución de la flora gallega en X. Filgueira et al. (edit.), Galicia, Geografía General de Galicia, XVII: 202-227, Edit. Hércules, A Coruña, 1996.
Kent, M. & Coker,P. 1998. Vegetation, Description and analysis. A practical approach. .John Wiley & Sons,New York
Peinado, M. & Rivas Martínez (Eds.) 1987. La vegetación de España. Colección Aula Abierta, 3, Serv. Publ. Univ. Alcalá de Henares. Alcalá de Henares
Zunino, M. & Zullini, A. Biogeografía. La dimensión espacial de la evolución. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana. 2003.
Complementary bibliography
Blanco, E. et al. 1996. Los Bosques ibéricos. Una interpretación geobotánica. Ed. Planeta, Barcelona
Carrión, J. S. 2003. Evolución Vegetal. Editorial DM. Murcia
Takhtajan, A 1986. Floristic regions of the World. University of California Press, Berkeley
Recursos on line:
https://www.um.es/docencia/geobotanica/
http://www.bosquesdegalicia.es/
https://www.globalbioclimatics.org/
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233755631_Biogeografia_Capitul…
https://www.globalbioclimatics.org/book/bioc/global_bioclimatics_4.htm
You should be able to:
Specific
CE1.c - Scope of competence: instrumental knowledge, skills and basic skills in biology techniques
CE4.f - competence Scope: Biodiversity: Biogeography and conservation
CE4.g - competence Scope: Biodiversity: Analysis of biodiversity
CE5.b - competence Scope: Environment, populations and ecosystems populations, communities and ecosystems
CE5.d - competence Scope: Environment, populations and ecosystems management and conservation
CE5.e - competence Scope: Environment, populations and ecosystems: Diagnosis and solving environmental problems
Basic:
CB2 - That the students can apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and have competences typically demonstrated through devising and defending arguments and solving problems within their field of study
CB3 - That students have the ability to gather and interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) to inform judgments that include reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical
CB4 - That students can communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to an audience both skilled and unskilled
CB5 - That students have developed those learning skills necessary to undertake further studies with a high degree of autonomy
General:
CG2 - Collect and interpret data, information and relevant results, draw conclusions and issue reasoned reports on issues related to Biology
CG3 - Apply both theoretical and practical knowledge acquired as the ability of analysis and abstraction in the definition and approach to problems and finding solutions in both academic and professional contexts
CG4 - To communicate, both in writing and orally, knowledge, procedures, results and ideas in biology, both specialized and non-specialized public
CG5 - Study and learn independently, to organize time and resources, new knowledge and techniques in any scientific or technological discipline
Transversal competences:
CT1 - Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CT2 - Capacity for reasoning and argumentation
CT4 - Ability to obtain adequate, diverse and updated information
CT7 - Commitment veracity of the information provided by others
CT8 - Ability to use ICT
CT9 - Use of bibliographic information and
Lectures and seminars
Field Practices
Written exam
Contained in Virtual USC
Field practice
There will be a field practice that will consist in the study and identification of diverse communities in their natural environment. This practice will be carried out in the Sierra de Ou Courel or in the vicinity of Santiago de Compostela depending on the availability of financing.
Seminars
For this type of interactive classes, the methodology of seminars will be used, in which the teacher will have a role of director and organizer and that will require two students to participate actively in exposing doubts about the elaboration of work, the search for information, etc.
Tutorials
Methodology tutorial.
A written examination will be conducted at the end of the course and the final grade is obtained according to the following weighting:
- The note of the theoretical examination will represent 80% of the final grade.
- Attendance and participation in various educational activities, especially those that are practical, represent 20%
- No person may approve the signature if the student does not get at least 5 points out of 10 in the note by theoretical examination.
-In tests they will be evaluated all competitions. Evaluation criteria for the course are listed in the table on the following link: http://fxc.usc.es/gl/centros/bioloxia/criteriosavaliacion.html
Evaluation:
Exam, practices and seminars: Specific, basic and generals
Exam: CT1, CT2
Practices and seminars: CT4, CT8, CT9
For cases of fraudulent carrying out of exercises or tests, the two students and the qualifications review will be applied or compiled.
Lectures: 26 hours
Interactive classes:Practical classes (11 h) and seminars (3 h)
Tutorials: 1 h
Exame: 2 h
Total hours (classroom, laboratory and field): 43 hours
Total hours of personal work: 69.5h
Individual studio: 59,5
Elaboration memory of practices: 5
Preparation of seminars: 5
TOTAL HOURS: 25h x 4.5 ECTS = 112.5h
• Attendance at all teaching activities.
• Daily learning the content taught in class.
• Consultation of recommended bibliography.
• Make use of tutorials for any matter relating to the matter
Scenarios
Phase 1: Presential Presentations; Interactive Non-presential; On-site field practices; Face-to-face Assessment (Exam 8, Seminar work 2); Virtual USC tools; Methodology See Guide.
Phase 2: Non-presential Presentations; Interactive Non-presential; On-site field practices; Non-face-to-face evaluation (final work); Tools USC Virtual, Team; Methodology Contents previously available in virtual USC. Online availability during class hours.
Phase 3: Non-face-to-face exhibitions; Interactive Non-presential; Non-face-to-face field practices; Non-face-to-face evaluation (final work); Tools USC Virtual, Team; Methodology Contents previously available in virtual USC. Online availability during class hours.
Pablo Ramil Rego
- Department
- Botany
- Area
- Botany
- ramil.rego [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
Mª Del Carmen Lopez Rodriguez
- Department
- Botany
- Area
- Botany
- Phone
- 881813372
- mdelcarmen.lopez.rodriguez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Javier Angel Guitian Rivera
Coordinador/a- Department
- Botany
- Area
- Botany
- Phone
- 881814978
- javier.guitian [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Professor
| Wednesday | |||
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Virtual classroom |
| Thursday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Virtual classroom |
| Friday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Spanish | Virtual classroom |
| 05.27.2021 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Main Hall Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
| 07.13.2021 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 05 (video-conference). Rita Levi Montalcini |
| 07.13.2021 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 06. Diane Fosey and Jane Goodall |