ENV 513 Marine Ecology

Prerequisites: ENV 501 and ENV 502, or permission of the instructor.  Explores the ecology of marine and estuarine systems, including the plankton, rocky shores, soft-sediment bottoms, seagrass beds, salt marshes and coral reefs. Planktonic and benthic processes will receive equal emphasis. Applied topics in fisheries management and in human impacts on marine environments will be introduced.