MB3190:03
Coral Reef Ecology
| Townsville | HECS Band 2 |
26 hours lectures, 20 hours practicals, 32 hours field work. Semester 2.
Available to level 3 students with suitable background (invertebrate biology, statistics, computers). A quota of 50 places will apply on the basis of marks in .
Staff: Professor T Hughes.
A treatment of the major aspects of coral reef biology, including population dynamics, life histories, community structure and diversity, effects of disturbance, competition and predation, and reef management.
Learning Objectives:
- to be able to detect patterns in nature, and devise means for explaining them;
- to evaluate scientific evidence critically.
Assessment by a three hour examination (60%); field report (15%); laboratory notebook (25%).