English title:
Plant and environment
Course ID:
831312
ECTS credits:
3,0
Title in native language:
Plant and environment (in Eng.)
Plant and environment (in Eng.)
Term Semester:
Autumn/Winter
Instruction language(s):
English
Course content:
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
Learning outcomes:
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.
Teaching and learning methods:
2020 the lecture is in the auditory and in parallel via Zoom. Link is available via boku-learn
Exam method:
written exam, 10 questions, mostly one per chapter, the overall grade results from the sum of the marks for individual questions, (max 11).
Points/ grades:
≥5: 4,
≥6.5: 3,
≥8: 2,
≥9.5: 1
Points/ grades:
≥5: 4,
≥6.5: 3,
≥8: 2,
≥9.5: 1
Organisation: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna
Country:
Austria
Acronym:
BOKU
ERASMUS+ code:
A WIEN03
Teaching period summer semester:
22. Feb 2021 - 30. Sep 2021
Teaching period winter semester:
13. Oct 2020 - 21. Feb 2021
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