831312 Plant and environment
- Type
- Lecture
- Semester hours
- 2
- Lecturer (assistant)
- Organisation
- Offered in
- Wintersemester 2022/23
- Languages of instruction
- Englisch
- Content
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Introduction - stress, temperature - energy balance, light - quality and quantity, water and drought, flooding and oxygen deficiency, salt, heavy metals and phytoremediation, nitrogen and the N cycle, CO2 and the global carbon cycle; herbivores, pathogenes and defence; genetically modified crops; invasive plants, ecosystem services
- Objective (expected results of study and acquired competences)
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Participants have theoretical and practical knowledge about the interactions between plants and their environment, how different environmental factors affect plants, plant adaptations to and also how plants affect their environment. They understand important local and global cycles. The knowledge establishes a basis for working on applied botanical and ecological problems.
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