BZ3615 - Climate Change and Plant Survival
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 4 |
| Administered by: | School of Marine & Tropical Biology |
The strategies and mechanisms that allow plants to survive and proliferate in diverse environments provide valuable insights into how plants have adapted to different conditions in the past. In fact, many living plant species evolved at a time when climate was significantly different from today. This subject explores these strategies and uses knowledge of them to provide a framework for assessing the resilience and vulnerability of our living flora to adapt to current trends in climate change. Ecological, reproductive, and physiological plant survival strategies will be analysed in field based learning activities 'out bush', which provide the basis of practical skills in this subject.
Learning Outcomes
- to gain an understanding of strategies plants adopt to survive in a variety of environments from marine to rainforests to deserts;
- to develop practical field based and laboratory skills in evaluating plant survival strategies;
- to apply the knowledge gained to evaluate plant species survival in the context of modern climate change;
- to understand the nature of climate change and its effects on plants and ecosystem processes.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends.
| Assumed Knowledge: | Students enrolling in this subject should have a good understanding of level 2 science, including knowledge of plant ecology, plant diversity and a fundamental understanding of whole organism environment interactions. |
| Prerequisites: | (BT1001 OR BZ1003 OR AG1003 OR BZ2610) and any level 2 or above BZ subject |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | BT3010 BZ5615 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Joseph Holtum |
| Lecturers: | Dr Joseph Holtum, Dr Jonathan Luly, Assoc. Professor Michelle Waycott. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (50%); (50%). |
| Cairns, Limited, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 24-Mar-2011 | |
| Face to face teaching (6 day field trip, dates TBA) | |
| Coordinator: | Dr Joseph Holtum |
| Lecturers: | Dr Joseph Holtum, Dr Jonathan Luly, Assoc. Professor Michelle Waycott. |
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| Assessment: | other exams (50%); (50%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.