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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 will apply on the basis of marks in Mb2060 .

Staff:

Dr K Anthony.

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 examination (60%); field report (15%); laboratory notebook (25%).