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 Plant Ecosystem Processes - BIOS3061
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Contact: Hyde,Geoffrey Joseph
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 5
 
 
Offered: Semester 1 2005
 
 
Fee Band: 2
 
  

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Interactions of plants with their soil and atmospheric environments. Plant growth and decomposition processes. Cycling of carbon, water and nutrients in plant ecosystems. Role of fungi in ecosystems. Mineral nutrition and water uptake in plants. Root systems. Plant strategies for improving mineral nutrition. The role of symbiosis in mineral nutrition. Impacts of global change on vegetation. Role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon budget. Relating vegetation to climate.

Assumed Knowledge: BIOS2051

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