Sylvain Delzon – Tree Physiological Ecology

MASTER COURSES

Physiological Plant Ecology

PLANT WATER RELATION

Water potential – water transport – Sol-plant-atmosphere continuum – tension cohesion theory – Hydraulic constraints in trees – Transpiration – Stomatal behaviour – Cavitation – Water use efficiency – Carbon discrimination in plant

PHOTOSYNTHESIS AND PRODUCTIVITY

Leaf photosynthesis – Farquhar Model – Gas exchange – Measurement of net assimilation rate – light response curve – CO2 rseponse curve

PLANTS UNDER STRESS and STRATEGIES

Effects of drought – Effects of extreme temperatures – Drought resistance in plants – Plant strategies – Functional traits

Terrestrial Ecosystem Ecology

Energy balance – Carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems – Water balance in terrestrial ecosystems – Nutrient cycles in terrestrial ecosystems

Global changes

Impacts on stomatal conductance, photosynthesis and transpiration – Impacts on leaf phenology – Global carbon cycle

LICENCE COURSES

General ecology – Ecosystem ecology – climate change – biological invasion – biogeography – tree distribution

ENITA COURSES

Impacts of climate change on tree distribution range

Water relations in trees.