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PLANTS AND LIFE PROCESSES  
Alpine plants' carbon relations and growth

Learning objectives

 

   You will ...

  

   You will learn ...

  • rediscover your knowledge of basic plant physiology in an alpine ecology context
     
  • perform a virtual acclimation experiment
     
  • explore your understanding of what makes a plant grow
     
 

  • the basics of plant gas exchange
     
  • how experimenters study gas fluxes and growth
     
  • that "time" is a crucial ecological factor in the Alpine
     
 
 
 

   You will understand ...

  

   You will be able to ...

  • the carbon balance
     
  • the difference between source and sink limitation
     
  • why and how temperature limit growth
     
 

  • separate the effect of season length from other climatic effects
     
  • explain why alpine plants are not carbon limited
     

 

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29 August 2011
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