Handbook

Explain the evolutionary (i.e. phylogenetic) relationships among major plant lineages;

Describe the major structural innovations of each group and how they function;

Describe key physiological processes in plants and how they have evolved;

Describe the influence of evolutionary history and of the environment on biogeographic patterns of species occurrence, from community to continental scales;

Demonstrate a basic ability to use the command-line programming platform R to display phylogenetic trees and the use of phylogenetic information to analyse the evolution of traits and the formation of plant communities;

Demonstrate a basic ability to identify species of the Australian flora with the aid of taxonomic keys.