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Apr 20, 2024
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PBIO 4095 - Field Studies in Plant Diversity
Intensive field-based investigation of plant communities distributed across an environmental gradient, and the vascular plant diversity (families, genera, species) comprising the communities.
Requisites: (PBIO 2090 and (3190 or 4090)) or concurrent
Credit Hours: 3 - 6
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture, 4.0 laboratory
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Contrast representative families, genera, and species comprising communities along the environmental gradient.
- Develop proficiency with keying out and sight-identifying vascular plant families, genera and species in the target region.
- Gain experience with ecological sampling techniques to analyze plant community composition.
- Learn to apply and interpret statistical analyses to floristic and ecological data sets.
- Understand diversity of plant communities and ecological zones in the target region.
- Understand shifts in plant community structure and vascular plant diversity with changing ecological factors (e.g., soil moisture).
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