Plant Ecology in a Changing World
  • Topics
    • Topic Overview
    • Biomes and Climates in a Changing World >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • 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 >
      • Remember Utah's past and envision our future
      • Restoration ecology
      • Managed ecosystems
      • Utah urban ecology
      • Urban ecological futures
  • Assignments
    • Assignment Overview
    • Discussion
    • Problem sets
    • Ecology & Global Changes
    • Plant ecology policy
    • Defense of policy
    • Exam #1
    • Exam #2
  • Campus
    • Campus Overview
    • Grasses
    • Green infrastructure >
      • GI Overview
      • Stormwater >
        • GI 1
        • GI 2
        • GI 3
        • GI 4
        • GI 10
      • Green roof
      • Pollinator >
        • Pollinator species
    • Trees of the Wasatch
    • Shrubs of the Wasatch
    • Invasives
  • Biomes
    • Biome Overview
    • Climate diagrams
    • Vegetation sight-seeing trip
    • Biome images
  • Models
  • Lab

Exam 1 data (2014)

All 100 points on the upcoming exam will relate to the following data and observations from the notebooks of Dr. Wanda Weatherly of Wanship, Utah. You are free to discuss these data and observations among yourselves and with the TA. Be familiar with what these data indicate regarding the plant community, species adaptations, and climate relationships we have been discussing in class.

By way of introduction, Wanda Weatherly is a plant physiologist interested in all sorts of things. She loves to hike and to read, especially books and articles describing the physiological basis of adaptation and factors governing plant responses to the environment. She is also a history buff who is fascinated with the travels of early American explorers such as Carson, Provo, and Weber.

Your task is to be prepared to answer questions related to the data from Wanda's notebook (pages 156-164). The questions will require that you analyze data beforehand to discern patterns. Be prepared to describe relationships, trends, and patterns within these data sets. The expected answers will be short. Often a short 2-4 sentence response is all that is needed to justify your explanation.

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Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah