🌿 Lecture Notes: Tamara Hochstrasser

Key Takeaways

• Specific Heat
• Heat of Vaporization
• Evaporative Cooling
• Köppen-Trewartha Climate Classification
• Causes of Aridity
• Plant adaptations to aridity

Lecture Content Overview

• Properties of Water
• Water Cycle
• Definition of Aridity
• Transpiration & Coping with Water Loss During Photosynthesis
• Desertification
• Soil-Plant Feedbacks
• Climate Change Scenarios
• Feedback Between Climate and Vegetation Systems
• Relationship Between Transpiration and Biomass