Sumários

GUIDELINES FOR PRESENTATION PROJECTS – Project proposals

5 Dezembro 2023, 08:15 Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez


POSTER PRESENTATIONS: principles of poster presentations, organizing sections in a poster, designing and formatting the poster

ASSESSMENT OF RESTORATION: Ecological and Social Wheel

PROJECT PROPOSALS  - Preliminary proposals by student groups

Management and uses of vegetation: PART I - Phytoremediation PART II - Fire and vegetation

30 Novembro 2023, 11:00 Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez


PHYTOREMEDIATION

Definition

Types of approaches

Examples of plants and contaminants

Use of native plants and restoration

Advantages

Disadvantages

FIRE AND VEGETATION,

POST FIRE RESTORATION

  Wildfires in the Mediterranean region

  Effects of fire on soil properties and soil conservation: Soil Burn Severity; Changes in key soil properties related to erosion and revegetation in burnt areas, Soil hydrological properties, hydrological processes and erosion

Land restoration after wildfire: revegetation and erosion control in burned areas: Natural mechanisms of soil protection after wildfire: natural revegetation and litterfall in wooded areas; Emergency actions against erosion in burnt forest areas; Erosion barriers; Channel treatments; Seeding

FUEL MANAGEMENT

FIRE IN RESTORATION

Biological invasions: management of invasive exotic plants

28 Novembro 2023, 08:15 Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez


Biological invasions

-Definitions and terminology

-Current status

-Atributes of invasive plants

-Attributes of invaded habitats

-Consequences: impacts in ecosystems

-Methods of management / control

-Examples of species and techniques

CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT OF RIPARIAN AND WETLAND VEGETATION

23 Novembro 2023, 11:00 Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez


Implementation of restoration in riparian and wetland ecosystems

-Process-based restoration

-Scales of intervention

-Types of measures: restoration, rehabilitation, improvement


-Case studies

Vegetation data preparation and analysis

21 Novembro 2023, 08:15 Patricia Maria Rodriguez Gonzalez


Final project guidelines: structure of management proposals for the case study

Vegetation data manipulation

Field vegetation database and online databases