Th Sept. 7	Introduction, plants and habitats, plant nomenclature, vegetative morphology
Tu Sept.  12	Vegetative morphology; woody species contrasted
Th Sept. 14	Reproductive morphology I
Tu Sept. 19	Reproductive morphology II
Th Sept. 21	Landscape ecosystem concept; lab ecosystems, woody plant "life styles"
Tu Sept. 26	Life history and regeneration:  reproduction, dispersal, establishment.  Required reading in course pack: Regeneration and establishment of woody plants
Th Sept. 28	Site factors: light and temperature in relation to growth
Tu Oct. 3	Site factors: physiography, soil moisture and nutrients in relation to growth
Th Oct. 5	Landscape ecosystems:  forest communities, disturbance, succession
Tu Oct. 10	Variation: environmental and genetic
Th Oct. 12	Speciation and hybridization
Tu Oct. 17	The world's largest organism!
Th Oct. 19	EXAMINATION I (covers lectures, assigned readings, natural history features, and species and habitat examples from lab)
Tu Oct. 24	Conifers I:  origin, occurrence, habitat
Th Oct. 26	Conifers II:  morphology
Tu Oct 31	Plant-animal interactions
Th Nov. 2	Winter condition
Tu Nov. 7	Woody plant ecosystems and species of boreal and northern forests
Th Nov. 9	Woody plant ecosystems and species of mixed mesophytic and Appalachian oak forests
Tu Nov. 14	Appalachian oak forests continued; Southern pine-oak and Mississippi River bottomland forests
Th Nov. 16	Rocky Mountain forests:  location, ecological relationships; Transition and Submontane Zones
Tu Nov. 21	Rocky Mountain forests:  Montane zone; fire species, exposed ridge species
Th Nov. 23	HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Tu Nov. 28	Rocky Mountain forests: Sub-alpine forests of the northern and far-northern Rockies
Th Nov. 30	Ornamental and cultivated plants
Tu Dec. 5    Th Dec. 7	Woody plants of China and comparisons with North America Woody plants: worldwide perspective
Th Dec. 9	EXAMINATION II (covers lectures, assigned readings, natural history features, and species and habitat examples from lab)