Aquatic Botany Lab

 

Syllabus

 

 

Plant Identification Links

 

Native Aquatic & Wetland Plants in Florida (links, photos, group-level descriptions - link)

 

University of Wisconsin Herbarium - Family Guide to Grasses, Sedges, and Rushes (with color photos and links to other resources - link)

 

Utah State University/Intermountain Herbarium - Interactive Plant ID Keys (associated with the Grass Manual on the Web - link)

 

USDA PLANTS database (link)

 

USDA PLANTS interactive keys (link)

 

Flora of North America (link)

 

Flora of North America - grasses (link)

 

Flora of North America - sedges (link)

 

Flora of North America - rushes (link)

 

 

Wetland Links

 

National Wetlands Inventory

 

 

Readings

 

US Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program info

 

Cowardin et al. (1979) Classification of wetlands and deepwater habitats of the US

 

 

Data and information from previous semesters

 

Data handling and graphing

(ignore assignment on page 4)

 

Basic data analyses

(ignore assignment on page 6)

 

Point-intercept sampling for aquatic plants - PDF

 

 

Lab Report Instructions - NEW!

 

Data for our Loakfoma Seed Bank Census - NEW!

 

 

Data for our Bluff Lake Survey

This includes data from 2005 and 2006 that will help you

interpret our 2007 Data - note plot numbers.

 

Alligatorweed survey 2005 report

 

Alligatorweed survey 2006 report

 

 

 

Data from Growth Forms Lab - 2005

 

Data from Vegetative Growth Lab - 2005

 

Data from Floristic Survey (TrimCane) Lab - 2005

 

Coefficients of Conservatism

 

 

 

 

Instructor contact info:

Gary N. Ervin

223 Harned Hall

(662) 325-1203

gervin (at) biology.msstate.edu

 

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