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PLANTS AND LIFE PROCESSES

Learning objectives

 

You will ...      You will learn ... perhaps be surprised that certain organisms like what humans consider stressful   acknowledge that the common "stress and limitation" concept is problematic   adopt a less anthropocentric view of life in the cold     which physical constraints may impair alpine plant life at times   what the critical thresholds of such influences are   under which conditions alpine plants are at risk of being damaged by climatic extremes

You will understand ...      You will be able to ... the mechanisms of frost tolerance   the circumstances under which heat may become critical   why and when excess solar radiation can be problematic     distinguish between conditioning and destructive climatic deviations from optimality   estimate the risk of damage by extreme events in alpine plants   explain how such effects operate and how plants can cope with these constraints

 

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