CPSC 431: Plants and Global Change

3 Hours

Course Description
Course Objectives
Course Time
Instructor

Prerequisites
Prerequisites
Grading

Course Description

This course provides an overview and synthesis of global atmospheric and climate change and its impacts on plants, including crop and natural ecosystems. The focus is on the physiological processes and other biological mechanisms that provide the basis for 1) understanding responses and 2) development of predictions. 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.

Same as IB 440, and NRES 431.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, students will: - appreciate how and why atmosphere and climate are likely to change over this century - understand the physiological bases of crop and plant responses to these changes - be able to use and understand models for predicting plant responses - be able to apply what you have learned for the objective analysis of the implications of change for crop production, biosphere and society.

Course Time

This class is only offered during the Spring semester. See the University Course Schedule for times.

Instructor

Stephen P. Long
379 Edward R. Madigan Laboratory
Phone: (217) 333-2487
E-mail: slong@illinois.edu (preferred contact method)

Prerequisites

CPSC 112 or IB 103.

Grading

Grades in Plants and Global Change 305 are on a long written assignment and on two examinations:

Term Paper	333 points
Midterm Examination	333 points
Final Examination	334 points
Total	1000 points

A => 900 points
B =  900-899 points
C =  700-799 points
D =  600-699 points
F =< 600 points

Crop Sciences

CPSC 431: Plants and Global Change

3 Hours