Module BO4101: Environmental Physiology
| Co-ordinator: | Professor Michael Jones |
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| Course Type: | Mandatory |
| Assessment: | 50% Examination, 50% Continual Assessment |
| ECTS: | 5 credits |
| Prerequisites: | None |
Contact hours:
| Lectures: | 20 hours |
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| Tutorials: | 4 hours |
| Practicals: | 12 hours |
| Total | 36 hours |
Description:
This module investigates how plants interact with their environment. It attempts to answer the question: “How do the intricate physiological mechanisms, elucidated by plant physiologists over the last century, operate in the natural environment?”
Learning outcomes:
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
- Discuss how environmental factors influence the performance of individual plants and population and community processes
- Explain how complex ecological patterns can emerge from simple processes operating at different temporal and spatial scales
- Use modelling to explain experimental observations, and how these observations can be extrapolated to understand new environments and processes
- Apply laboratory methods to investigate the behaviour of plants under controlled environmental conditions.