AGRONOMY 517
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I. Weeds and Invasive Plants
A. The Biology of Plant Invasion
B. The Perception of Plant Invasion
C. Definitions of a weed
D. The origin of weeds
E. Archetype
weed species
F. Introduction to Plants (S & C, Ch. 1)
II. The
Evolutionary Biology of Weeds
A. Variation and its inheritance in plant
populations (S & C, Ch. 2)
B.
Selection and biodiversity
1. Natural selection
2. Artificial selection
C.
Adaptation and speciation
1. Adaptation
2. Speciation
D. Evolutionary and ecological genetics (S & C, Ch.
3)
III. The Disturbed Ecosystem Environment
A. The
Spatial-Temporal Abiotic Environment
1. Space-time
2. Niches in the community
3. Habitats
4. Disturbance
5.
Spatial heterogeneity
Special Topic: Stability in
Communities
B. The Plant Community Environment
1. Interspecific
interactions (S & C, Ch. 4)
IV. The
Life History of Weeds
A. Birth and community assembly
1. Seed Dormancy
2. Silvertown, Ch. 5: Population dynamics
3. Propagule Dispersal
4. Silvertown, Ch. 6: Dynamics of age-structured and stage-structured populations
5. Soil Seed Pool Formation
6. Seedling Recruitment
7. Silvertown, Ch. 7: Regional dynamics and metapopulations
B. Competition, interference and coexistence
1. Competition and
coexistence (S & C, Ch. 8)
2. Plant density, plant form
and community diversity
3. Forces of sections acting on
plant communities
4. Mechanisms of interaction
between species
Special Topic: Mimicry
Special Topic: Allelopathy
C. Reproduction
1. The evolution of plant
life history: Breeding systems (S & C, Ch. 9)
2. The evolution of plant
life history: Reproduction, growth, senescence and death (S & C, Ch. 10)1.
3.
Mating Systems
4. Fitness
and Fecundity
5.
Reproduction,
mortality and life history timing of reproduction
6.
Reproduction and seed trade-offs