BOTN 316 — Plant Ecology of West Africa
Plant and Environmental Biology · University of Ghana
Introduction to description and classification of plant communities; climax vegetation; the West African environment. Basic concepts in plant ecology; biological associations: mutualism commensalism, parasitism, predation. Pollination mechanisms; social insects. General distribution of vegetation types in relation to climate and soils. Forest and savanna types and their interrelationships. Strand, mangrove, lagoon and montane vegetation types. Accra plains. Human ecology in hese vegetation types. Introduction to quantitative ecology. Species diversity indices.
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Level 300
- Semester
- Semester Two
Other courses on this programme
- BOTN 310 — Language for Scientists I
- BOTN 311 — Vegetative Anatomy of Seed Plants
- BOTN 312 — Whole Plant Physiology
- BOTN 313 — Phycology
- BOTN 314 — Taxonomy and Evolution of Seed Plants
- BOTN 317 — Biometry I
- BOTN 321 — Evolution
- BOTN 322 — Biology of Lower Plants
- BOTN 323 — Principles of Plant Propagation, Conservation and Utilization
- ABCS 202 — Introductory Cell Biology and Genetics
- BIOL 201 — Introductory Plant Morphology
- BIOL 315 — Principles of Genetics
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).