Plant Ecology 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
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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 >
      • 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
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    • Exam #2
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Peer-to-peer Review of a Fellow Student's Utah
Vegetation and Adaptation
​Paper

Paper is due October 18th


The Coleogyne ramosissima and Quercus harvardii desert shrublands south of Hanksville, Utah; Ephedra and both C3/C4 grasses are interspersed between these two dominant shrub species

You are asked to provide an anonymous and constructive 1-page review of a fellow student's Vegetation and Plant Adaptation Paper. You will be randomly assigned one of your fellow student's papers to read. After reading the paper, you are asked to submit a 1-page written review that will be provided to the student along with the instructor/TA review. Your goal is to provide feedback and constructive information that will inform your fellow student of how well their paper was received and of what can be done to improve their paper.

You are specifically asked to provide comments on the following elements:
  (a) How well does the paper provide an informative synthesis related to the chosen topic?  (6 points)
  (b) Does the text provide sufficient depth and content to inform and educate the reader?  (6 points)
  (c) Does the text effectively use the literature to support claims or statements?  (6 points)
  (d) Is the writing style clear and easy to follow? If not, what can the student do to improve the presentation?  (7 points)

Once your review is completed, please upload it into CANVAS.


Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah