Plant Ecology in a Changing World
Topics
Topic Overview
Biomes and Climates in a Changing World
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Adaptation, biodiversity, and environment
Climate constrains plant distributions
Biome and climate relationships
Deserts
Grassland, savanna, and shrub biomes
Forest biomes
Alpine and tundra biomes
Plant adaptation
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Plant microclimate 1
Plant microclimate 2
Leaf energy budgets
Water movement through the soil-plant continuum
Principles of photosynthesis
Photosynthesis responses to light and temperature
Environmental stresses limit resource capture and use
Nutrients in the environment
Adaptation to environmental stress
Resource Allocation Changes with Environment
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Architecture and canopy processes
Plant phenology and resource allocation enhance performance
Leaf economic spectrum
Life history and reproduction
Defense against herbivory
Plant competition
Plant Responses to a Changing World
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Global changes occurring today
Invasive species
Atmospheric CO2 impacts plant
C3/C4 photosynthesis and climate
Climate change and the global carbon cycle
Climate warming and its impacts
Engineering Plant Communities
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Remember Utah's past and envision our future
Restoration ecology
Managed ecosystems
Utah urban ecology
Urban ecological futures
Assignments
Assignments Overview
Discussion
Problem sets
Ecology & Global Changes
Plant ecology policy
Defense of policy
Exam #1
Exam #2
Campus
Campus Overview
Grasses
Green infrastructure
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GI Overview
Stormwater
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GI 1
GI 2
GI 3
GI 4
GI 10
Green roof
Pollinator
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Pollinator species
Trees of the Wasatch
Shrubs of the Wasatch
Invasives
Biomes
Biome Overview
Climate diagrams
Vegetation sight-seeing trip
Biome images
Models
Lab
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Topic 20 - Defense against herbivory
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