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

Topics that I think you might find useful. More announcements and links are available through the class Canvas page.

​Campus as a Living Lab
  • Click here for a map of common trees on the University of Utah campus
  • Click here for a map of common shrubs on the University of Utah campus
Climate and vegetation distribution related
  • Exploring climate diagrams for cities and regions in all parts of the world
  • Exploring the vegetation anywhere in the world
  • Combinations of temperature and precipitation across Earth that are relevant to a general understanding of the distributions of different biomes
  • The UU tree finder to locate and identify 97 different trees on the University of Utah campus (click here to download a KMZ file of these trees as well as an additional 100 different tree species).
  • Access to aerial images that would allow me to explore the vegetation in Utah over the last century
  • An Excel file that allows you to calculate the incoming direct and diffuse solar radiation levels on leaves or slopes on an hourly, daily, or annual basis
  • An Excel file that allows you to calculate site water balance for any combination of slope and elevation in the Wasatch Mountains
Energy balance and photosynthesis related
  • An Excel file that allows you to calculate leaf temperatures by solving the energy budget equation
  • An Excel model from von Caemmerer and Farquhar that allows you to calculate photosynthesis based on light, water availability, and Rubisco concentrations
  • An Excel model that allows you to calculate photosynthetic light-use efficiencies as a function of temperature and [CO2] which then allows you to see how these environmental variations influence C3/C4 abundances
Water relations related
  • Accessing models of water transport, cavitation, and transpiration in plants
Phenology and life history related
  • Models linking phenology, life cycles, and climate relevant to recent climate changes
Jim Ehleringer, University of Utah