Integrative Course: Animal and plant environmental bio-indicators

Module plant environmental bio-indicators

Analysis of biodiversity in relation to the environmental characteristics, characterization of the environment through the responses of the plant bioindicators, acquisition of environmental biomonitoring techniques aimed at the implementation of interdisciplinary scientific data for a network of large-scale monitoring.

The plant-environment relationships . Abiotic and biotic factors . Indication values of Ellenberg and Landolt . Hemerobous Index. Life strategies: CSR categories of Grime . Biological forms and their applications in ecological assessment.. Climate changes. Atmospheric pollutants. Biovalutation and instrumental measurements. Biovalutation and instrumental measurements. Biomonitoring. Vegetal organisms used as biomonitors (algae, lichens, mosses and vascular plants). Ecology and systematics of lichens and bryophytes. Lichens and Bryophytes and their use in pollution monitoring as bioindicators and bio-accumulators. The Index of Atmospheric Purity (IAP), Index of Lichen Biodiversity (LBI) and Index of Bryophyte Biodiversity” (BBI). Bioaccumulation. Limitations, advantages and differences between the bryophyte and lichen bioindicators . The vascular plants as bioindicators.