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Academic Year/course: 2017/18

277 - Degree in Environmental Sciences


Syllabus Information

Academic Year:
2017/18
Subject:
25244 - Landscape analysis and interpretation
Faculty / School:
201 - Escuela Politécnica Superior
Degree:
277 - Degree in Environmental Sciences
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
3 and 4
Semester:
Second Four-month period
Subject Type:
Optional
Module:
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1.2. Recommendations to take this course

This subject is offered in the English Friendly form

5.1. Methodological overview

Theory sessions in which external expert communications are also included and participation is encourage.

Practical sessions consist of field, lab and study work with materials supplied by lecturers.

5.2. Learning tasks

The program offered to achieve the expected results include the next learning activities:

Classroom theory sessions: Ofering a general synthesis of the subject. Main lines of the subject will be explained in broad strokes to provide guidance to the student. Focusing in difficult concepts. For each topic an eschemtic presentation will be provided through Moodle. The teacher will provide cientifical and technical publications. Most of the sessions will consist on lectures but encouraging participation of the students. If possible external explerts will be invited to lecture the students.
Classroom practical sessions: A guide for the practical activities will be provided explaining off-site and on-site activities to be done by the students. It includes students presentations on their activities. Such presentations will be assesed.
Field trips: 16 hours of field trips are programmed sonsiting of 2 fieldtrips to Pyrenees and to the Hoya de Huesca.
Tutorials: To follow up the theory and practical activities the teacher will be available for tutorial sessions as needed.

 

5.3. Syllabus

Theoretical Programme

 

  • Landscape in ecology and the ecology of landscape. The birth of landscape ecology. The first steps in landscape ecology; ecological cartography.  Environmental issues inextricably linked to landscape transformations.
  • The origin of landscape. Historical, spatial and isolated processes.
  • The modern concept of landscape.  Landscape; a multidisciplinary concept.  Elements and components of landscape.  The first landscapes. Landscape scale. Perception. Factors influencing vision.  Visual quality and impact.
  • Conceptual models of landscape. Different landscape elements.  Basic metrics.  Concepts of heterogeneity, habitat fragmentation and connectivity.  Theories and models of landscape ecology.
  • Landscape fragmentation.  Disturbances. Fragmentation. Ecological effects and environmental measures.  Landscape connectivity, habitat corridors and linkage.
  • Project execution related to landscape.  Landscape legislation.  Basic project content. The concept of ecological cartography.  Production of ecological maps. Resistance-connectivity maps.  Multivariate techniques.
  • Landscape scale approach to ecological restoration.

 

Practical Programme

 

Use of the QGIS software to study de visibility y landscape metrics.

 

Role playing and analysis on participative processes for decision making.

 
Landscape patch-corridor-matrix identification.  Environmental units. Practical session and field work.
 
Multivariate ordination techniques and summary of variables.

5.4. Course planning and calendar

Activity and week 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Total
On-site activities                                           66
Theory 2 2 2 2 2   2     2 2 2   2               20
Problem solving   2     2   2     2 2   2 2               14
Lab                                           0
Team work     2 2                 2   2 2           10
Field trips           8                 8             16
tutorials                                           0
Assessment activites                               3     3     6
Off-site activities                                           84
Autonomous work 2 2 2 2 2     6 5 4 4 4 4 4   4 8 8 5     66
Team work 2 2 2 2 2   4   4                         18
TOTAL 6 8 8 8 8 8 8 6 9 8 8 6 8 8 10 9 8 8 8     150

5.5. Bibliography and recommended resources

BB González Bernáldez, Fernando. Ecología y paisaje ; Invitación a la ecología humana : la adaptación afectiva al entorno / Fernando González Bernáldez. Madrid : Fundación Interuniversitaria Fernando González Bernáldez para los Espacios Naturales, D.L. 2011
BB Landscape ecology and resource management : linking theory with practice / edited by John A. Bissonette and Ilse Storch . Washington [etc.] : Island Press, cop. 2003
BB Learning landscape ecology : a practical guide to concepts and techniques / Sarah E. Gergel, Monica G. Turner, editors . New York : Springer, cop. 2002
BB Managing and designing landscapes for conservation : moving from perspectives to principles / edited by David B. Lindenmayer, Richard J. Hobbs . 1st ed. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007
BB Turner, M.G., Gardner, R.H., O'Neill, R.V. (2001). Landscape Ecology in Theory and Practice. Pattern and Process. 2001. Springer
BC Burel, Françoise. Ecología del paisaje : conceptos, métodos y aplicaciones / Françoise Burel, Jacques Baudry ; ilustraciones, Yannic Le Flem ; fotografías, R.T.T. Forman ; versión española de Susana Suarez Seoane . Madrid[etc.] : Mundi-Prensa, 2002
BC El paisaje / M.ª del Milagro Escribano... [et al.] . Madrid : Ministerio de Obras Públicas y Urbanismo, Centro de Publicaciones, 1987
BC Estudios sobre el paisaje / Eduardo Martínez de Pisón, Concepción Sanz Herráiz (editores) . Madrid : UAM Ediciones ; Soria : Fundación Duques de Soria, D.L. 2000
BC Farina, Almo. Principles and methods in landscape ecology : toward a science of landscape / by Almo Farina . Dordrecht : Springer, cop. 2006
 
LISTADO DE URLs:
 
  Moreno, F., García-Abad, J. (1996). Cartografía de la calidad visual del paisaje: reflexiones teóricas y ejemplo de aplicación. Serie Geográfica, 6, 115-129 
[http://dspace.uah.es/dspace/bitstream/handle/10017/1048/Cartograf%C3%ADa%20de%20la%20Calidad%20Visual%20del%20Paisaje.%20Reflexiones%20Te%C3%B3ricas%20y%20Ejemplo%20de%20Aplicaci%C3%B3n.pdf?sequence=1]
  Sancho, J. (1996). La función del paisaje: cartografía analítica y sintética. Serie Geográfica, 6, 179-212 
[http://dspace.uah.es/dspace/bitstream/handle/10017/1054/La%20Funci%C3%B3n%20del%20Paisaje.%20Cartograf%C3%ADa%20Anal%C3%ADtica%20y%20Sint%C3%A9tica.pdf?sequence=1]

 

The updated recommended bibliography can be consulted in: http://psfunizar7.unizar.es/br13/egAsignaturas.php?id=2207