Political, social and economic aspects of restoration will be considered. Extra work is required of graduate students. Particular emphasis will be placed on evolutionary processes and on adaptive aspects of thermoregulation, foraging strategies, spatial distribution, social and reproductive strategies. The course will emphasize both the theoretical basis and empirical evidence for ecological adaptation. There is a one-hour seminar each week for class discussion of selected lecture topics.
Extra work is required of graduate students.
The regulation of plant growth and development from the environmental to the molecular level, and the integration of these processes in time and space. Topics include growth regulation and regulators, photomorphogenesis, reproductive development, and development in stressful environments. Physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects of seed development and germination and establishment of the seedling will be discussed in lectures and discussions of recent advances in the literature. Emphasis will be placed on the interactions between different processes. Extra work is required of graduate students.