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PLANTS AND LIFE PROCESSES

Learning Objectives

 

You will ...      You will learn ... disclose unexplainable cattle deaths in the Swiss alps discover that underwater springs may decide on lives and death how climate change may influence alpine lakes      to interpret different response parameters in alpine lakes how a cold front can mix up alpine lakes how organisms protect themselves from UV-damage

You will understand ...      You will be able to ... how light interacts with lakes and organisms why winds determine life in alpine lakes and ponds that sampling time resolution must coincide with time resolution of changing activities     determine factors contributing to the energy budget of lakes describe events that cause stratification and mixing in lakes

 

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