You will ...

• rediscover your knowledge of basic plant physiology in an alpine ecology context
• perform a virtual acclimation experiment
• explore your understanding of what makes a plant grow

You will learn ...

• the basics of plant gas exchange
• how experimenters study gas fluxes and growth
• that "time" is a crucial ecological factor in the Alpine

You will understand ...

• the carbon balance
• the difference between source and sink limitation
• why and how temperature limits growth

You will will be able to ...

• separate the effect of season length from other climatic effects
• explain why alpine plants are not carbon limited.