• ECTS

    2 credits

  • Component

    Faculty of Science

  • Hourly volume

    9h

Description

This course proposes notions of plant architecture and development of the whole plant (stem and root) in the context of a diagnosis of the state of trees and their functioning in view of a management adapted to the objectives. The consideration and management of trees meet different criteria depending on the contexts considered (forest, fruit trees or urban). The following topics will be addressed in a theoretical and practical manner with case studies. (1) Generalities on morphology and architecture of the whole plant, (2) Life trajectories of the tree, forms of expectation (3) Trauma (competition, pruning, bio-aggressors) and reactivity of architectures (4) Practical work on the diagnosis of forest, fruit and urban trees

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Objectives

"From the observation of the structure of trees or alignments or forest stands: (1) know how to determine their state in relation to a reference development sequence, (2) be able to evaluate the adequacy or otherwise of the growth expressed in relation to the observed state of development, (3) identify the existence or otherwise of reaction structures, make a diagnosis on the architectural state of an individual; (4) Establish a summary of the state of the trees and issue management recommendations."

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Necessary pre-requisites

Notions of plant morphology

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Knowledge control

Continuous assessment : 100%.

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