Forest botany
Biodiversity and forest plants: meaning and conservation. Architecture of trees, biological forms, growth, root systems, monumental trees. Notes on vegetation. Systematics, morphology, ecophysiology, chorology of the main families of forest interest and, in particular, of Taxaceae, Pinaceae, Cupressaceae s.l., Fagaceae, Salicaceae, Myrtaceae, Leguminosae, Oleaceae.
Principles of environmental ecology
Levels of ecological organization, scales of space and time, branches of Ecology (autoecology, demoecology, synecology)
Ecological factors
Climate and climatic elements
climatic factors and interaction on plants
Adaptations of resistance to the water deficit of forest species; energy balance in different ecosystems of the earth; temperature: physical bases of control, physiological effects. Ecosystem - functionality: flow of energy and matter in the ecosystem;
Factors controlling gross primary production and net primary production; trophic relations: food chains.
Ecological pyramids; populations and communities: growth curves, competition and adaptation, temporal dynamics of the ecosystem: successions, disorders and responses;
Carbon cycle, forests and Kyoto protocol
Principles of Forest Ecology
The forest ecosystem
The flow of energy in the forest ecosystem
The cycle of food in the forest ecosystem
The water cycle in the forest environment
Global change and forests
The tree
The forest station
Structure and processes of the forest
Forest vegetation in Italy
the woods of new growths and the virgin and old forests
