ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.2 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.45
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: Botany
Areas: Botany
Center Faculty of Biology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin docencia (Extinguida)
Enrolment: No Matriculable
- Provide basic knowledge of Geobotany
- Understand the interrelation of the set of factors (geological, bioclimatic, ecological, anthropic,...) that explain the geographic plant patterns in a temporal and evolutionary framework.
- 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.
Lectures (26 hours) (Face-to-face teaching. Non-compulsory attendance)
Thematic Block 1 (8 hours. Units 1-5): Historical development of geobotany or plant biogeography. Key conceptual elements to understand the distribution of species in space and time. The ecological niche.
1: Introduction to geobotany. The ecological or environmental niche (2 hours)
2: Subdisciplines of geobotany: Chorology, areography, phytocenology and phytoecology (2 hours)
3: Historical Geobotany: Evolutionary Biogeography of Plants (1 hour)
4: Historical development of geobotany. Main schools and debates (2 hours)
5: Biogeography. New developments: phylogeography, macroecology, landscape ecology (1 hour)
Thematic Block 2 (10 hours. Units: 6-10): Patterns of distribution, diversification and biogeographical processes. Types of areas, endemic factors and biogeographic and evolutionary processes that give rise to the patterns. Disjunctions and routes of dispersion.
6: Types of areas. Natural and non-natural areas. Archaeophytes vs. neophytes (2 hours) 7: Endemic area and patterns of biodiversity (2 hours)
8: The Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot and biogeographical approaches. Phylogenetic endemism and phylogenetic diversity. types of endemism. Evolutionary processes (2 hours)
9: Iberian plant endemism. Environmental Promoting Factors and Spatial Patterns (2 hours)
10: Disjunct biogeographic patterns. Explanatory processes: extinction, adaptation, migration. Dispersion and vicariance (2 hours)
Thematic Block 3 (8 hours. Topics: 11-14): The influence of past and present climate on the configuration of current floras. Bioclimatological classifications and biomes. Phytoclimatology, Iberian biogeographical units and Iberian and Galician vegetation.
11: Bioclimatology. The influence of the climate. Evolution of vegetation and climatic change in the Tertiary and Quaternary. Last glacial maximum and late glaciar processes. The Holocene (2 hours)
12: Global climatic patterns. Bioclimatic classifications and biomes (2 hours)
13: Phytoclimatology and geobotany. The Salvador Rivas Martínez’s school. Bioclimates, thermotypes, ombrotypes and vegetation series (1 hour)
14: Phytogeographic regionalization and main Galician vegetation units (3 hours)
Field practice (11 hours): A non-compulsory field practice of a full day will be carried out, with departure in the morning and return in the late evening, in the eastern Galician area, to analyze temperate mountain plant communities (surroundings of O Cebreiro and Caurel) and ecological zones of Mediterranean climatic influence (Serra da Enciña da Lastra).
Seminars (3 hours): In classes of one hour and for three days. It will address the ancestral reconstruction of the area and the historical biogeographical processes of a plant lineage that presents disjunct distribution patterns using a molecular phylogeny. Alternatively, and after discussion with the students, other types of seminars may be considered: Option 2: Ecological niche modeling with plant species distribution data. Option 3: Carry out a phytosociological inventory.
Tutorials (1 hour) Doubt solving
Exam (3 hours)
Basic Bibliography
Alcaraz, F. 1999. Manual de Teoría y Práctica de Geobotánica. Editorial DM. Colección Texto – Guía. ICE. Univ. Murcia.
Barry Cox, C., Moore, P.D., Ladle, R.J. 2016. Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach. 9th Edition. Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-118-96857-4.
Peinado, M. & Rivas Martínez (Eds.) 1987. La vegetación de España. Colección Aula Abierta, 3, Serv. Publ. Univ. Alcalá de Henares. Alcalá de Henares.
Kent, M. & Coker,P. 1998. Vegetation, Description and analysis. A practical approach. .John Wiley & Sons,New York.
Loidi, J. 2017. The vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula. Vol. 1 & 2 Plant and Vegetation, Springer Nature.
Thompson, J.D. (2007) Plant Evolution in the Mediterranean. Oxford Scholarship Online. ISBN-13: 9780198515340.
Complementary bibliography
Blanco, E. et al. 1996. Los Bosques ibéricos. Una interpretación geobotánica. Ed. Planeta, Barcelona
Rull, V. 2020. Quaternary Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography. Academic Press. ISBN 978-0-12-820473-3
Basic and General competences: They correspond to those contained in the report of the Degree in Biology (2nd edition)
Transversal competences:
CT1 - Ability to search, process, analyze and synthesize information from a variety of sources.
CT2 - Ability to reason, argue and think critically.
CT3 - Ability to work in groups and address problematic situations collectively.
CT6 - Ability to adequately reflect the sources of information used.
CT7- Ability to apply ITs in the field of Biology.
CT8 - Ability to solve problems through the integrated application of their knowledge, promoting initiative and creativity.
CT9 - Ability to organize and work plan.
Specific competences:
CE4 – To know the origin of life, the mechanisms of inheritance and its evolution
CE5 – To understand the diversity of living things and biological cycles, as well as develop the ability to analyze and interpret their adaptations to the environment. CE12 – To know and understand the structure and dynamics of populations and communities.
CE13 – To know how to describe, analyze and interpret the physical environment and its relationship with living beings
Methodology in lectures
They will be held through master classes (non-compulsory attendance). Face-to-face teaching.
Methodology in interactive classes.
Field practices (non-compulsory attendance).
Tutorials (non-compulsory attendance, face-to-face).
The contents of the subject will be available on the Virtual Campus.
Field practice. There will be a non-compulsory field practice that will consist of the study and identification of various plant communities in their natural environment.
Seminars.
They will work in groups of 4-5 people, in a project-based learning format and with the "inverted classroom" methodology. Thus, the materials will be available online before the seminar, structured as a series of consecutive steps that the students must understand theoretically and, in the interactive part of the seminar, overcome through the use of different computer packages until the completion of the learning process until achieving the reconstruction of the biogeographical history of a plant lineage.
Tutorials.
Tutorial methodology.
A written exam will be carried out at the end of the subject to which the continuous evaluation of the seminars and practice will be added, as follows:
- The note of the theoretical exam will represent 70% of the final qualification.
- Attendance and participation in the different teaching activities (lectures and seminars), and especially those of a practical nature (field practice), will account for 30%. This aspect will be evaluated through the individual practice reports (15% of the qualification) and the group seminar reports (15% of the qualification). The results of the seminar may be evaluated by means of a brief oral presentation in classroom.
- The subject cannot be approved if the student does not obtain a minimum of 5 points out of 10 in the note of the theoretical exam.
In the second opportunity, the qualification of the continuous evaluation that will be added to the written exam will be preserved.
The repeaters will carry out the activities of the continuous assessment and theoretical exam, no qualification is preserved from one course to another.
Assessment of competences: Exam, Practices and Seminars: Basic, general and specific.
Transversal: Exam: CT2. Practises and seminars: CT1, CT3, CT6, CT8, CT9
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
Plagiarism and misuse of technology in the performance of exercises or exams: for cases of fraudulent performance of exercises or tests, the provisions of the Regulations for the evaluation of students' academic performance and the review of grades will apply.
In general, it is expressly forbidden for students to distribute, among people outside the course, the teaching material (both written and audiovisual) available on the Virtual Campus or offered by teachers through other channels.
Luis Miguel Serrano Perez
Coordinador/a- Department
- Botany
- Area
- Botany
- Phone
- 881814972
- miguel.serrano [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary supply professor for IT and others
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| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Main Hall Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Main Hall Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
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| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Galician | Main Hall Santiago Ramón y Cajal |
| 06.05.2023 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 01. Charles Darwin |
| 06.05.2023 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 02. Gregor Mendel |
| 06.05.2023 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 03. Carl Linnaeus |
| 07.13.2023 10:00-14:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | Classroom 04: James Watson and Francis Crick |