Physical Geography and Resource Environment

Introduction of Plant Geography

Release Date: 2017-09-22

1. Basic Course Information

Course Code: 085753
Course Name: Introduction of Plant Geography
Course Type: Specialty course
Periods: 48
Credits: 3
Target Students: Undergraduates Majoring in Physical Geography and Resource Environment
Assessment: Examination
Preparatory Courses: Essentials of Geology, Geomorphology, Meteorology and Climatology

2. Brief Course Introduction

Plant geography describes the basic characteristics of the plant's major taxa, plant nomenclature, plant phylogeny and ontogeny development, the coupling relationship between plant and earth; The inner rule of plant individual life activity and the influence of the external environment and plant to the outside environment; Modern ecological conditions and historical reasons for the distribution of plant species; World plant division and its time and space evolution; Plant division and main characteristics of China; Basic properties, types, structure, distribution of plant community and its relationship with environment; Characteristics of vegetation types and distribution of vegetation in the world.