Learning Support Materials Aims and Objectives:
The module provides a basic overview of plant biodiversity, including its evolutionary origins, and teaches the elementary knowledge of plant anatomy and morphology needed for the plant identification skills of botanists, zoologists and environmental scientists engaged in terrestrial fieldwork.
Module Co-ordinator: Dr Ian Scott
Learning Support Materials The following links contain teaching materials to support and extend sections of the BS13810 lectures and practicals. They are not designed as substitutes for either the classes or handouts.
Revision Images for Lectures and Practicals: click on hyperlink to view
Microscope slides from the Plant Structure practical
IBERS TROPICAL GLASSHOUSE: right
Local information: Students and campus visitors are welcome to visit the Glasshouses to see exotic plant species. They are on the east side of Plas Penglais drive (across Penglais Road from the main campus entrance). Enter the tropical glasshouse through the single storey brick building. Please remember that the buildings are only open during working hours (closed 1300-1400 h). Visit this Web Site for a Virtual Tour. Plants provided by the Glasshouse can also be seen in the Magic of Life Butterfly House, a tourist attraction in the local Rheidol valley (link below).
Hedychium gardnerianum Zingiberidae (right) in the IBERS Tropical Glasshouse
NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDEN OF WALES
WILDLIFE TRUST OF SOUTH & WEST WALES
IMPORTANT PLANT AREAS IN WALES
MOSSES AND LIVERWORTS IN WALES
MAGIC OF LIFE BUTTERFLY HOUSE (LOCAL)
Supplementary Lecture Notes
These links are intended to enhance and extend the lectures - please note they do not reproduce the lectures.
PLANT STRUCTURE PLANT STRUCTURE PLANT STRUCTURERight:
Passion flower Passiflora in the Tropical Glasshouse.
PLANT BIODIVERSITYI: Diversity and Evolution of Land Plants
PLANT BIODIVERSITY PLANT BIODIVERSITYIII: Pteridophytes and Gymnosperms
Right: Salvinia auriculata, an aquatic fern in the Tropical Glasshouse pond.
