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

Preparing for exam #2

In order to prepare for exam #2, you are to study
    a. a series of data sets
    b. be familiar with and prepared to apply the "solar radiation on slopes" Excel model
    c.
be familiar with and prepared to apply the "leaf temperature" Excel model
    d.
be familiar with and prepared to apply the "canopy profiles and photosynthesis" Excel model
​In studying these data, your challenge (and that of your group) is to figure out what questions will be asked based on evaluating the data and knowing the information that has been presented in lectures. 

  1. Click here to access data sets for exam #2 
  2. Preparing for the exam should be a "team effort". You are free to work with any other student(s) in the class in preparing for the exam. 
  3. You are free to ask and discuss any questions you would like.
  4. You are encouraged to write anything that you learn from studying for the mini-exam on a printout of the data set pages and bring these pages into the exam.
Click here for a copy of 2015 Exam 2
Click here for a copy of 2016 Exam #2
Click here for answers to 2015 Exam 2
Click here for answers to 2016 Exam #2
Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah