Course Material
- Introduction of ecology
- history and recent development in ecology
- nature and properties of soil
- chemical properties of soil
- water in soil
- plant water continuum
- homeostasis in plants
- nutrient cycle
- population ecology
- physiology and ecology of phosphorous
- ecology and physiology of potassium
- heavy metal stress
- drought and salt stress
- stress and osmoregulation in plants
- soil errosion
- light as an ecological factor
- nature of light
- factors affecting light and temperature
- factors affecting variation in light and temperature
- plant responses towards temperature
- adaptions of land plants towards temperature
- CO2 and stomatal reponse
- effect of elevated carbon dioxide in plants
- different pathways of nitrogen fixation
- fire as an ecological factor
- carbon and nitrogen balance
- water as an environmental factor
- role of water in plant growth
- plant adaptations
- water status in soil
- stomata and water regulation
- transpiration
- transpiration of leaves and canopies
- energy metabolism in plants
- Morphological changes due to oxygen
- importance of oxygen
- wind as an ecological factor
- fires as an ecological factor
- strategies to cope water deficiency
- plant adaptations against water deficiencies
- Plant response against abiotic stress
- adaptations in plants against abiotic stress
- Mushrooms
- Practical Plant Ecology I
- Chapters 44
- Department Botany
- Teacher
Dr. Abdul Ghani