Content (Syllabus outline)
Lectures
- Brief history of the subject.
- Introduction to chorology (distribution ranges, mapping).
- Ecological factors limiting distribution (climatic conditions, hydrology, tectonics, litology, edaphic).
- Historical dimensions related to biogeography (specistion, extinction, dispersion, provincialism) and current processes (island biogeography, interspecific interactions, communities).
- Geographical patterens of biodiversity and its endangerment, focus in high biodiversity of the Balkans and Slovenia as part of it.
- Biogeographic regionalization of the Woorld, Europe, Slovenia.
- Vegetation science: introduction to methodology, plant communities of Slovenia, mapping of vegetation, habitat types, biomes.
- Aplication of biogeography knowledge in nature protection, focused in biodiversity.
Field tutorials
Field exercises in different biogeographical regions of Slovenia illustrating key biogeographic fenomena in nature.
Prerequisites
Exam: attendance at field tutorials.