AGRICULTURAL

UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS
Department of Forestry
& Natural Environment
Management

Forest Species Ecophysiology

Course Content

Basic concepts, role and importance of Ecophysiology (adaptation - adaptability, strategy - tactics, adaptive mechanisms, natural selection). Forest tree ecophysiology (water economy, water availability and productivity, photosynthesis, biological uptake and nitrogen metabolism, germination and aging ecosystem, factors affecting tree metabolism, low ecosystems, extreme or dry conditions temperature). Mechanisms and response of trees to environmental stress.

Learning Results

Upon successful completion of the course the student will be able to:
• has acquired scientific knowledge and critical thinking about the interactions between
plant functions and the environment (including climate change) at different levels of
organization (organs, whole plants, populations) and with different approaches (molecular
biology, classical experimental physiology, physiology, ecology),
• Participate in research on plant species' reactions to habitat change and climate change.

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DEPARTMENT OF FORESTRY 

The Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management joined the Faculty of Plant Sciences of the AUA. The Department operates from the academic year 2019-2020 and is based in Tthe city of Karpenisi. Housed in the building facilities of the Department of Forestry and Natural Environment Management of the former Technical Scool (TEI)  of Central Greece.
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