Professores: Leandro Bochi da Silva Volk e José Pedro Pereira Trindade
Pré-Requisitos: Não
Horas: 30
Créditos: 2
Semestre: 2º

Ementa:
Proporcionar aos alunos o conhecimento de padrões, processos e mecanismos inerentes a estudos de vegetação. Princípios básicos de estudos em autoecologia, ecologia de comunidades e paisagem. Funções ecossistêmicas e sistemas auto-organizativos.

Bibliografia:

• ANAND, M. The fundamentals of vegetation change – Complexity rules. Acta  Biotheoretica 48, 1–14 (2000).
• ANAND, M.; LI, B. L. On emergent properties, mathematical artifacts and power laws. Community Ecology 3, 249–251 (2002).
• ANAND, M. The fundamental nature of vegetation dynamics: a chaotic synthesis.  Coenoses 12, 55–62 (1997).
• ANAND, M.; KADMON, R. Community-level analysis of spatiotemporal plant  dynamics. Ecoscience 7, 101–110 (2000).
• ANAND, M.; LI, B. L. Spatiotemporal dynamics in a transition zone: patchiness, scale,  and an emergent property. Community Ecology 2, 161–169 (2001).
• FARINA, A. Principles and methods in landscape ecology. (Chapman & Hall Ltd, 1998).
• FOODY, G. M. Applications of the self-organising feature map neural network in  community data analysis. Ecological Modelling 120, 97–107 (1999).
• KATTGE, J. et al. TRY – a global database of plant traits. Global Change Biology 17, 2905–2935 (2011).
• KAY, J. J. in Handbook of ecosystem theories and management (eds. Jorgensen, S. E. & Müller, F.) 135–160 (CRC Press – Lewis publishers, 2000).
• KENKEL, N. C.; WALKER, D. J. Fractals in the biological science. (Quantitative Plant Ecology Lab Department of Botany University of Manitoba, 2001).
• KROHN, W., KÜPPERS, G.; NOVOTNY, H. in Self-organization: Portrait of a Scientific Revolution (eds. W., K., Küppers, G. & Novotny, H. D.) 1–12 (Kluwer Academic  Publishers, 1990).
• McMULLIN, B.; MURPHY, N. Autopoiesis & Perception. (Dublin City University, 1994). 13. Orlóci, L., Pillar, V. D. & Anand, M. Multiscale analysis of palynological records: new possibilities. Community Ecology 7, 53–67 (2006).
• ORLÓCI, L.; ANAND, M.; PILLAR, V. D. Biodiversity analysis: issues, concepts,  techniques. Community Ecology 3, 217–236 (2002).
• ORLÓCI, L.; PILLAR, V. D.; ANAND, M.; BEHLING, H. Some interesting characteristics  of the vegetation process. Community Ecology 3, 125–146 (2002).