- Docente: Rossella Pistocchi
- Credits: 3
- SSD: BIO/04
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LS) in Conservation and Management of Natural Heritage (cod. 0249)
Learning outcomes
To give basic knowledge of marine plant physiology relatively to the changing environment
Course contents
Marine plants and their environment, benthic and planktonic habitat.
Role of pigments in photosynthetic light harvesting and in photoprotection.
Main aspects of photosynthetic electron transport and of Calvin cycle; reserve products; organic excretion.
Photosynthesis in the marine environment: light; photosynthesis versus light intensity; sun-shade adaptations; CO2 sources; carbon concentrating mechanisms.
Nutrients: limiting factors; nutrient-limited growth; uptake kinetics; nitrogen, phosphorus and silicon utilization; trace elements; vitamins.
Temperature and salinity: effect on growth; adaptations to extreme values.
Growth rate estimates; seasonal growth rythms.
Physiological adaptations to the environment: phytoplankton buoyancy; seaweed tolerance to desiccation.
Readings/Bibliography
Alpi A., Pupillo P., Rigano C.
Fisiologia delle piante
EDISES
Falkowski P.G., Raven J.A.
Aquatic photosynthesis
Blackwell
Lobban C.S., Harrison P.J.
Seaweeds Ecology and Physiology
Cambridge University Press
Teaching methods
Power point presentation
Assessment methods
Oral examination
Teaching tools
Videoprojector for power point files
Office hours
See the website of Rossella Pistocchi