PLANT GEOGRAPHY

BOTANY 455

Ecology of Wisconsin plant communities: floristic composition, community structure; relationship to history, climate, soil, and geology; response to human perturbation.

BOTANY 100

Major emphasis on the roles of plants and microbes in past and present global ecology, and the past and present uses of plants and microbes by humans, including emerging applications of biotechnology.

BOTANY/GEOG 338

Explores how physical and biological factors affect the distribution of terrestrial biomes, ecosystem types, and biodiversity, as well as the role of disturbance and recent human activities on differences in past and modern day species distributions.

BOTANY 401

Taxonomic survey of the vascular plants of Wisconsin. Emphasis on in forest identification.

BOTANY 400

Plant systematics: the integration of taxonomy (identification, nomenclature, classification emphasizing flowering plants), evolution (speciation, reproductive biology, adaptation, convergence, biogeography), and phylogenetics. Emphasis on representative families and genera of flowering plants in Wisconsin, use of keys, manuals, and iNaturalist, plant collection.