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Course schedule 

 

International Pollination Course 2014

 Intervales State Park - FFCLRP - USP - SÃO PAULO - BRAZIL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Course program

 

 

1. Lectures (preliminary subjects)

 

- Local vegetation-types and physical aspects of PE Intervales

 

- Local flora diversity

 

- Questions, sources of variation and experimental design pollination studies

 

- Plant phenology

 

- Floral-Resources

 

- Floral-Attractants

 

- Nectar

 

- Plants reproductive systems diversity

 

- Landscape Ecology in pollination studies

 

-Pollination and plant demography

 

- Zoological aspects of pollination

 

- Foraging behavior of pollinators

 

- Pollintor insects and bee taxonomy

 

- Canopy pollination

 

- Plant-Pollinator Interaction networks

 

- Conservation of pollination services

 

- Pollination in Agroecosystems

 

- Evolutionary-Pollination Ecology

 

 

. 2 Laboratory practices and demonstrations (preliminary issues):

 

- Functional morphology of flowers

 

- Methods in biology with emphasis on floral morphology and nectar

 

- Methods in pollination biology

 

- Identification of bees

 

 

3. Field practices, to be developed in accordance with local flora availability of flowers and pollinators.

 

 

4. Development and project and final presentations by students.

 

 

 

 

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