Plant Ecosystem Processes - BIOS3061


	Faculty: Faculty of Science
	School: School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences
	Contact: McMurtrie,Ross Edward
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 5
	Session Offered: See Class Timetable
	Fee Band: 2 (more info)

Description

Examines interactions of plants with their soil and atmospheric environments; plant growth and decomposition processes; cycling of carbon, water and nutrients in plant ecosystems; the 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; the role of terrestrial ecosystems in the global carbon budget; relating vegetation to climate.

Assumed Knowledge: BIOS2051