RIPARIAN AND FLOODPLAIN FORESTS

4 Dezembro 2018, 08:30 • Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez

RIPARIAN AND FLOODPLAIN FORESTS

1.Introduction – fluvial systems functioning

2.Degradation: pressures and impacts

3.Conservation and management

3.1. Principles

3.2. Legal context and planning

3.2. Diagnosis

3.3. Implementation of restoration

3.3.1. Types of restoration measures

3.3.2. Case studies

DATA ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION DATA: APPLICATION TO THE CASE STUDY AND IMPLEMENTATION WITH R

27 Novembro 2018, 08:30 • Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez

DATA ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION DATA: APPLICATION TO THE CASE STUDY AND IMPLEMENTATION WITH R

-Training tools for the analysis and interpretation of vegetation data,

useful for the diagnosis of needs/outline of proposals for management of vegetation

- Examples of aplication of statistical analyses to the case study

- Preliminary discussion of data analyses that will be developed by each student gropus in their final projects

LAND DEGRADATION AND ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF VEGETATION

21 Novembro 2018, 10:45 • Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez

LAND DEGRADATION AND ECOLOGICAL RESTORATION OF VEGETATION

1. Drivers of change and land degradation

2. Society responses: legal framework

3. Definitions and principles of ecological restoration

1. Definition

2. Attributes of restored ecosystems

3. Reference ecosystems

4. Monitoring

5. Restoration planning

4. What is being done

5. Main barriers and needs for restoration

6. Supporting documentation and bibliography

DATA ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION DATA

20 Novembro 2018, 08:30 • Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez

DATA ANALYSIS OF VEGETATION DATA

 

I. METHODS BACKGROUND

- Vegetation patterns and Ecological variability

-Field collection of vegetation data

-Multidimensional character of vegetation data

-Types of data (categorical vs quantitative,

abundances, frequencies) and pre-analysis, data preparation (data cleaning, outliers, transformation, standardization, exploratory data analysis).

-Ecological similarity (indices of ecological similarity and distance between samples).

-Major types of multivariate analyses (Ordination, Clustering)

-Applications of multivariate analyses in conservation, management, and restoration

- References

II. IMPLEMENTATION WITH R

• Introduction to R language

• Packages and Functions in vegetation analyses

• Examples applied to the case study (CL database)

PLANTS AND HERBARIUMS

13 Novembro 2018, 08:30 • Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez

PLANTS AND HERBARIUMS

Theory: Importance of plants and herbariums, Ex-situ vegetation conservation and role of herbariums, Guided visit to Herbarium Joao de Carvalho e Vasconcellos

identification of plants collected during Field Work sampling carried out by students groups for Final project