Plant Ecology : CBT465
Plant Ecology : CBT455
Course Outline
| Course Code: CBT 455 Course Name: Plant Ecology | Offering Term: Winter Credit Hours: 4.0 |
| THEORITICAL (3.0 Cr. Hrs.) | ||
| Lecture | Contents | Remarks |
| Lec#1 | Concept, Importance and Branches of Ecology | |
| Lec#2 | Environmental/ecological factors: Light | |
| Lec#3 | Environmental/ecological factors: Temperature | |
| Lec#4 | Environmental/ecological factors: Water | |
| Lec#5 | Environmental/ecological factors: Precipitations | |
| Lec#6 | Environmental/ecological factors: Wind | |
| Lec#7 | Environmental/ecological factors: Natural Disasters | |
| Lec#8 | Environmental/ecological factors: Biological Interactions | |
| Lec#9 | Ecosystem: Concept, Characteristics, Classification and Services | |
| Lec#10 | Ecosystem: Composition and Function of ecosystems | |
| Lec#11 | Ecosystem: Components of different ecosystems | |
| Lec#12 | Ecosystem: Food chain, Food web, Trophic level, Ecological pyramids and Energy flow | |
| Lec#13 | Population Ecology: Definition, Characteristics and Structure of plant population | |
| Lec#14 | Community Ecology: Concept and Characteristics | |
| Lec#15 | Community Ecology: Composition/structure | |
| Lec#16 | Weather and climate: Macro and Micro climate, World climate | |
| Lec#17 | Weather and climate: Climatic classification of Bangladesh | |
| Lec#18 | Plant succession: Definition, types, causes and steps of succession | |
| Lec#19 | Plant succession: Process of succession- Xerosere (Lithosere/Psammosere) | |
| Lec#20 | Plant succession: Process of succession- Hydrosere, Halosere | |
| Lec#21 | Vegetation Analysis | |
| Lec#22 | Interactions among populations | |
| Lec#23 | Intra- and inter-specific competition | |
| Lec#24 | Adaptation of plants in different habitats | |
| Lec#25 | Plant adaptation to adverse condition | |
| Lec#26 | Plant biodiversity | |
| Lec#27 | Phytogeography: plant distribution, plant conservation and preservation | |
| Lec#28 | Environmental Pollution: Causes and remedies | |
| Lec#29 | Greenhouse effects: Causes and remedies | |
| Lec#30 | Causes of depletion of forest in Bangladesh and possible remedies | |
| PRACTICAL(1.5 Cr. Hrs.) | ||
| Expt. No. | Name of the Experiment | Remarks |
| Expt.#1 | Study of the adaptive features of Hydrophytes (Water hyacinth) | |
| Expt.#2 | Study of the adoptive features of Xerophytes (Karabi) | |
| Expt.#3 | Study of the adoptive features of Xerophytes (Jhau) | |
| Expt.#4 | Study on adaptive features of Epiphytes (Rasna) | |
| Expt.#5 | Study on adaptive features of Parasitic plant (Dodder) | |
| Expt.#6 | Study of adaptive features of C4 Plant compared to C3 plant | |
| Expt.#7 | Vegetation analysis and measurement of species diversity using quadrat method | |
References
- R.W. Jackson and J.M. Jackson. 1996. Environmental Science: The Natural Environment and Human Impact. Longman, Essex.
- Gopal and N. Bhardwaj. 1998. Elements of Ecology. Vikas Pub., Sahidabad.
- J. Kormondy. 1996. Concepts of Ecology. 4th edn. Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi.
- P. Odum. 1971. Fundamentals of Ecology. 3rd edn. W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia.
- D. Kumar. 1995. General Ecology. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi.
- D. Sharma. 1999. Ecology and Environment. Kalyani Pub., New Delhi.
- S. Ambhast. 1998. A Text Book of Plant Ecology. Students’ Friends and Co., Varnasi.
- C. Tiwari. 1992. Concepts of Modern Ecology. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh, Dehra Dun, India.
- P. Palaniappan. (ed.). 1995. Agricultural Inputs and Environment. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, India.
Reference Books and Materials
- K. Kohli, D.R. Batish and H.P. Singh. Population and Community Ecology.
http://nsdl.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/153/1/Population+and+community.pdf