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- Instructor:
Martin
Dovciak, Contact
Info, Dovciak Lab in Plant Ecology
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- Class
Times: Lecture-
TuTh 11:00–11:55 am // Labs- Wed 1:50 - 4:50 pm
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- Course
Description:
This course develops conceptual understanding and practical identification
skills that will further students’ appreciation of the diversity
and evolution of flowering plants, including their ecological, economic
and cultural significance. Half of the course lectures cover major
concepts in plant evolution and systematics, including flowering plant
morphology, pollination biology and reproduction, evolution of plant
diversity, origins and phylogeny of flowering plants, introductory
molecular systematics, and classification systems of flowering plants.
The laboratories, and the other half of the course lectures, cover
taxonomy and evolutionary relationships of approximately 50 globally
widely distributed flowering plant families, with a special emphasis
on taxa that are ecologically important in the northeastern US and
those with global economic or cultural significance. Selected taxa
are examined in detail to gain plant identification skills and appreciation
of ecological and evolutionary significance (and beauty!) of plant
forms and flower structures.
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