• Aquatic Botany with Casey Williams

  • Aug 14 2024
  • Length: 2 hrs and 36 mins
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Aquatic Botany with Casey Williams

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  • Casey Williams is an botanist and plant ecologist specializing in aquatic plants - both plants that grow completely submerged and which can emerge above the water surface. In this episode, we discuss :

    -the stresses facing plants that grow underwater,
    -being limited by CO2 availability instead of water availability,
    -the endangered Texas Wild Rice,
    -how limestone geology influences aquatic plant growth by making CO2 more abundant,
    -utilizing aquatic plants and the fungi that grow on them for bioremediation and treating sewage at the local shitplant
    -how some aquatic plants have adapted to a paucity of dissolved carbon dioxide by supplementing with bicarbonate,
    -aquatic plants in deserts, and
    -how one plant in particular has utilized an evolutionary strategy more frequently employed by desert plants (CAM) as a way to cope with fluctuations in CO2 availability.

    Books referenced which can be downloaded off libgen.is :

    Wetland Plants by Cronk
    Aquatic Photosynthesis by Falkowski
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