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Teacher
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ONOFRI Silvano
(syllabus)
The shape of the coasts and their classification
Factors acting on the shores: waves, tides, winds
Sea level changes
Adaptations of plants to salinity, aridity and wind
Rocky shores, cliffs
Colonization of rocks, soil formation, ecological succession
Vegetation of rocky coasts
Mediterranean maquis and climax vegetation
The beaches: formation, classification, tourn over and morphology
Human impact on the beaches
Posidonia oceanica
Dune: definition, formation, zoning
Psammophilous vegetation, adaptations and succession of dunes
Degradation of the dune system
Plant communities
Coastal environments at risk: lagoons, coastal lakes and brackish ponds and their vegetation
Fire and pirophytism
Biodiversity conservation, red lists and germplasm bank
Botanic excursion
(reference books)
Quaderni habitat _ Ministero dell’Ambiente
Flora fitocenosi e ambiente. Elementi di Geobotanica e
Fitososciologia- Ubaldi _ CLUEB
Ecologia vegetale. La struttura gerarchica della vegetazione – Canullo
Falinska- Liguori Editore
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