Inventory of Natural Resources

Base Knowledge

Knowledge in forest mensuration is recomended

Teaching Methodologies

The classes will be theoretical and practical, in all the classes it will be carry out practical work, including fieldwork (forest, floristic and faunistic inventory)

Learning Results

The main objective of this curricular unit is to provide the technical and scientific bases for natural resources inventories. In the end of the course the students should be able to: (1) Know the most important sampling methods for forest and floristic inventories; (2) Know the most important sampling approaches for wildlife surveys; (3) Know the most common biodiversity indicators; (4) Is able to plan , execute, analyze and present results, for a concrete situation.

Program

The syllabuses for the acquisition of the three skills described before are divided into two learning modules:
Module 1- Data collection methods in the framework of floristic, forest and faunistic inventory.
Module 2- Development of a project of natural resources inventory in the field and elaboration and defense of the respective report.

Grading Methods

Avaliação por Exame
  • - Avaliação em exame com execução de uma parte teórico/prática. - 50.0%
  • - Componente exclusivamente prática. - 50.0%
Evaluation
  • - Module 2 (field work, report and discussion) - 50.0%
  • - Test theoretical / practice evaluation (Module 1) - 50.0%

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

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Direcção-Geral das Florestas. (2001). Inventário Florestal Nacional, Portugal Continental, 3ª Revisão. Ministério da Agricultura. Editideias.

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Salas, R. (2014). Curso de formação em inventario florestal para os quadros técnicos das Associações de Produtores Florestais, das Câmaras Municipais e PE florestais, ESA/IPC – ICNF.

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Gotelli, N. & Ellison, A. (2004). A primer of ecological statistics. 2nd Edition. Sinauer Associates Inc. Pub.

Kangas, A. & Maltamo, M. (2006). Forest Inventory – Methoodology and Applications. Springer.

Krebs, Ch. (1999). Ecological methodology. 2nd Edition. Harper & Row.