Courses objectives
- To provide the tools necessary for quantitative assessment of forest stands in tropical countries
- To improve skills in data analysis and use of biomass models.
Course contents
- Course
- Dendrometry: the main quantitative parameters of tree and stand assessment; techniques and methods; construction of volume tables (cubing rates); production and potential of tree stands
- Inventories: types of inventory and sampling, case studies
- Application to the inventory of a Mediterranean forest (practical work), including
- development of the method
- data collection
- data analysis
- report writing by groups.
Teaching and learning methods
48 hours in total:
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Lectures (18h)
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Practical field work (tree measurements and forest inventory) (30h)
Course evaluation
Evaluation of a practical work report per group.
Target skills
- Mastery of the handling of tools for measuring dendrometric parameters
- Mastery of the theory of forest inventory
- Experience in designing and carrying out a forest inventory.
