This course provides an overview and synthesis of global atmospheric and climate change and its impacts on plants, including crop and natural ecosystems. The impacts considered are rising CO2, tropospheric ozone, rising UV-B, increased nitrogen deposition, and rising temperature. Emphasis will also be placed on understanding of how atmosphere, climate and ecosystem interact, and of models developed both to synthesize current understanding and to predict into the future.
Instruction is by lectures, supported by seminars and hands-on computer modeling.
Prerequisites CpSc 121 or PlBio 100 or Consent of Instructor.