aulas teóricas · Ecologia Vegetal · Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa

1st lesson

1ª aula teórica . 1st lesson . 20-09-2023

Presentation of the discipline.
Objectives and functioning of the discipline.
Evaluation methods.

Anexos

2ª aula teórica . 2nd lesson . 20-09-2023

Establishment and development of vegetation.
Stress and disturbance factors.
Life strategies.
Strategies of the established phase and the regenerative phase.
Primary and secondary strategies. Grime model.
Relationship with biological types and other functional groups. Demographics in plants.

Anexos

2ª AULA (20Set) - Estrategias adaptativas (CM) PT.pdf

3ª aula teórica . 3rd lesson . 21-09-2023

The role of water in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems.
Water as a determining factor in the primary production of ecosystems. General aspects of water relations in plants-soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. The role of vegetation in the hydrological cycle. Ecophysiological aspects in drought-adapted plants and their importance for ecohydrology.

Anexos

3ª AULA (21Set) - A?gua (CM).pdf

4ª aula teórica . 4th lesson . 21-09-2023

1. How to describe diversity?
2. Monitoring plant communities
3. Diversity indices (Richness, Simpson, Shannon, Evenness)
4. Alpha, beta and gamma diversity
5. Case study

Anexos

5ª aula teórica . 5th lesson 25-09-2023

Case study : Coastal dune forests under groundwater changes: insights from mediterranean and tropical ecosystems

- Introduction to groundwater dependent ecosystems

- Strategies of plants' water-sources-use under contrasting groundwater availability

- (eco-physiological) Effects of water-table lowering on woody vegetation

- Impacts of groundwater depletion on community structure and ecosystem functioning

Anexos

6ª aula teórica . 6th lesson . 25-09-2023

Soil-Rhizosphere-plant interactions: the unknown part. Soil and nutrients. Interaction between soil and rhizosphere. The role of symbioses (i.e. mycorrhizae) in the uptake and acquisition of nutrients by plants. The conceopt of “soil hotspots”.

Anexos

7ª AULA (25 Set) - Solo (CM).pdf

7ª aula teórica . 7th lesson . 26-09-2023

Plant response to stress factors. The particular case of Mediterranean vegetation. The theory underlying functional groups and their specific characteristics in the functioning of ecosystems. The role of biodiversity in the functioning of ecosystems. The concept of “typing point”.