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Apr 24, 2024
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PBIO 4350 - Plant Population Biology and Community Ecology
Evaluates basic processes in plant demography leading to the organization and dynamics of plant communities. Emphasis on quantitative methods and modeling. Labs utilize numerical models, greenhouse experiments, and field exercises.
Requisites: BIOS 3750 or GEOG 4170 or PBIO 2090
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture, 2.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to describe plant population change in terms of births, deaths, and reproduction using simple numerical models.
- Students will be able to interpret plant performance in terms of biotic and abiotic heterogeneity at a variety of spatial scales.
- Students will be able to evaluate basic ecological processes such as competition, herbivory, and disturbance.
- Students will be able to interpret the growth forms and life histories of plants as products of natural selection in spatial and temporally heterogeneous environments.
- Students will be able to use simple numerical indices to describe the diversity and structure of plant communities..
- Students will be able to collect, collate, and present simple demographic and distributional data in a scientific format.
- Students will be able to interpret plant community structure and composition in terms of physical gradients, disturbance processes, and the life histories of individual species.
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