PLANT REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS:

• The Sex Life of Plants
• A Review of Sexual Reproduction.
• Sex - Why? How? What?
• Terminology
• Benefits of Sexual Reproduction
• Sexual Reproduction in Plants
• The Biodiversity of Plant Sexual Reproduction.
• Algae
• Mosses
• Ferns
• Seed Plants
• Flowers, the Ultimate Sexual Players.
• Asexual Reproduction

EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON PLANTS

• Introduction

• Species Concepts
• Genotypes and Phenotypes

• Evolution
• Basis
• Forces and Agents
• Adaptation

• Speciation
• Mechanisms
• Isolating Mechanisms

• Adaptation
• State and Process

• Special Features About Plants
• Clonality
• Polyploidy
• Introgression

• Classification and taxonomic ranks

• General Features of “Algae”
• Photosynthetic Pigments
• Storage Components
• Life History
• Variations
• Ecology & Economics
• Evolutionary History
• Prokaryote vs. Eukaryote

• Biological Diversity
• Cynophyta, Prochlorophyta
• Euglenophyta
• Haptophyta
• Dinophyta
• Chrysophyta - Ochrophyta I
• Phaeophyta - Ochrophyta II
• Rhodophyta
• Chlorophyta

• Macroalgae

• Chlorophyta
• Phylogenetic Relationships
• Growth
• Reproduction
• Important Orders

• Phaeophyta
• Phylogenetic Relationships
• Growth
• Types
• Reproduction
• Important Orders

• Rhodophyta
• Phylogenetic Relationships
• Alternation of Generations
• Triphasic: Tetrasporo, Caroposporo, gametophyte
• Growth
• Reproduction
• Important Orders

• Embryophyte

• Bryophyta
• Features

• Hepaticae
• Marchantiales
• Anthocerotae
• Musci

• Tracheophyte

• Pteriodophyta
• Features

• Lycophyta
• Isoetaceae

• Filicopsidae
• Pteridales
• Marsileales
• Salviniales

• Spermatophytes
• Features

• Magnoliophyta (Angiosperms)
• Features
• Diversity

• Magnoliidae (Dicots)
• Features

• Important Aquatic Families
• Nymphaceae
• Cabombaceae
• Ceratophyllaceae
• Haloragaceae
• Hippuridaceae
• Callitrichaceae
• Scrophulariaceae
• Ranunculaceae
• Polygonaceae

• Magnoliophyta (Angiosperms)

• Liliidae (Monocots)
• Features

• Important Aquatic Families
• Hydrocharitaceae
• Alismataceae
• Scheuchzeriaceae
• Juncaginaceae
• Potamogetonaceae
• Zannichelliaceae
• Najadaceae
• Pontederiaceae
• Lemnaceae
• Sparganiaceae
• Typhaceae
• Cyperaceae
• Poaceae
• Juncaceae

• Seagrass Evolution
• Agnes Arber's Faculties

• Selected Seagrass Traits
• Morphological
• Physiological
• Reproductive

• Seagrass Systematics
• Hydrocharitales
• Potamogetonales

• Seagrass Ecology
• Flow
• Productivity
• Trophic Dynamics
• Habitat, Substrate
• Water Quality
• General Ecology

• Characteristics of Flowing Water
• Flow Conditions
• Reynolds number
• Mixing Processes
• Boundary layers
• Eddies and other fluctuations

• Water Bodies
• Waves
• Stratification
• Richardson number
• Lagmuir Circulation
• Seiches

• Rivers
• Flow conditions on entering water bodies
• Kenney Dam
• Macrophyte Distribution and Abundance
• Sediment Factors
• Water Velocity

•  pH
•  Temperature
•  Density
•  Salinity
•  Gases

•  O2
•  CO2
•  Seston
•  Organic
•  Inorganic
•  Sediments
•  Elements
•  Macronutrients
•  C, N, P
•  Micronutrients
•  Redfield Ratios

•  What is Light
•  Wave vs. Particle

•  Light Measurements
•  Irradiance vs. Intensity
• Quantity
•  Quality

•  Photosynthetic Irradiance
•  PPFD
•  PPFFR

•  Light Attenuation
•  Secchi disks
•  I vs. z
•  Compensation Depth

• Photoperiod
•  Hsat

•  CO2 and water
•  Carbon relations
•  Dissociation

•  CO2 availability
•  pH
•  Diffusional stress
•  Comparison with terrestrial plants

• CO2 utilization by aquatic plants
•  Bicarbonate use

•  Carbon isotope fractionation
•  C3 vs. C4 Plants

•  Lifehistory traits

•  Sexual vs. Asexual reproduction
•  Advantages
•  Characteristics of Offspring

• Clonality
•  Fragmentation
•  Creeping Stems
•  Modified Shoot Bases
•  Root Suckers
•  Pseudovivipary
•  Habitat associations

•  Definitions and locations
•  Bogs

•  Diversity of form and function
•  Pitfall traps
•  Lobster-pot traps
•  Bird lime traps
•  Passive
•  Active
•  Steel traps
•  Mouse traps

•  Salient features of carnivorous plants

•  The evolution of Carnivorous Plants
•  Functional affinities.
•  Systematic affinities.

•  Pollination Mechanisms

•  Aerial Mechanisms
•  Biotic Mechanisms

•  Abiotic Mechanisms
•  Anemophily

•  Aquatic Mechanisms
•  Ephydrophily
•  Rafting
•  Meniscus

•  Hyphydrophily
•  Pollen Shower
•  Hydrophily

•  Advantages
•  Reproduction
•  Colonization

•  Agents
•  Fruit, seeds, diaspores

•  Mechanisms
•  Abiotic
•  Dipersal
•  Floating
•  Sedimentation
•  Biotic
•  Exozoic
•  Endozoic

•  Seedlings

•  Examples from seagrasses

•  Terminology
•  Populations
•  Communities

•  Types (Phytosociology)
•  Littoral
•  Emergent
•  Floating
•  Submerged
•  Epiphytic

•  Ecological Factors
•  Age / Trophic status
•  Disturbance
•  Temperature
•  pH
•  Nutrients
•  Water Velocity
•  Spatial Heterogeneity
•  Mutualism and Commensalism
•  Competition
•  Allelopathy

•  Terminology
•  Disturbance
•  Predation
•  Stress

•  Zonation
•  Rocky Intertidal Zones
•  Tides
•  Tide-Factor hypothesis
•  Physiological Induced Hypothesis
•  Ecological Competition
•  Upper Limits
•  Water stress
•  Heat Stress
•  Nutrient Stress
•  Competition
•  Lower Limits
•  Irradiance
•  Herbivory
•  Competition

•  Overview

•  Cultivation
•  Angiosperms
•  Rice

•  Macroalgae
•  History
•  Products and Uses
•  Species
•  Porphyra
•  Laminaria

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Last modified on December 3, 2002.