Aquatic Botany with Casey Williams

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 CronkAquatic Photosynthesis by Falkowski