Course: Biochemical Cycles and their Regulation in Plants and Ecosystems, Exercise (2101-423)

Persons:

• Dipl.-Biol. Magnus Wachendorf (verantwortlich)
• Mirjam Weiß (verwaltend)

Type of Course:

exercise

In-Class Hours Per Week:

2

Contents:

Students learn
- to measure and quantify energy-, water- and carbon fluxes in plants
- to analyze plant growth
- to analyze stand structure
- to cope with problems of ecologically important scale transitions (up-scaling effects from individual plants to ecosystems)
- to quantify energy fluxes in stands
- to measure water and carbon fluxes in stands

Literature:

Jones: Plants and microclimate, Cambridge Univ. Press.
Steubing, Fangmeier: Pflanzenökologisches Praktikum. UTB
Pearcy, Ehleringer, Mooney, Rundel: Plant Physiological Ecology, Chapman & Hall.
Willert von, Matyssek, Herppich: Experimentelle Pflanzenökologie, Thieme.
Gates: Biophysical Ecology, Springer Verlag

Location:

-siehe Freitext

Remarks:

Es wird empfohlen, die Module des Studienganges BSc Biologie "Ökophysiologie und pflanzliche Standortansprüche" und "Vegetation der Erde und Pflanzengeografie" absolviert zu haben.

Module:

• 2101-420 Biochemical Cycles and their Regulation in Plants and Ecosystems (compulsory)