MB3059 - Biological Oceanography (Advanced)

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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Available only to student enrolled in the BSc Marine Biology (Advanced Program)

An examination of the plankton community and its interactions with the physical and chemical environment. Topics include: nutrients and productivity, zooplankton behaviour and life cycles and the distribution of planktonic species over space and time on a broad range of scales and factors influencing the survival of larval fish. Students will be required to attend lectures and practicals as for MB3050.

Learning Outcomes

• to give a sense of the complex structure of the planktonic community over the full scale of variation across space, time and body size;
• to give the student a new conceptual understanding of the ocean as a fabric of living organisms, rather than as a mere water mass;
• to impress upon the student the fundamental significance of the plankton as the foundation of the economy of the sea and the nursery for most of its species;
• to provide a practical familiarity with the techniques of plankton sampling, identification and analysis.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments.

Prerequisites:	BS2001 (MB2060 and BT2240 recommended)
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	MB5055 and MB3050

Availabilities
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Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coordinator:	Professor Michael Kingsford
Lecturers:	jc128821, Professor Michael Kingsford, jc140990, Professor Garry Russ, mbmim.
Contact hours:	26 hours 26 hours 13 hours
Assessment:	(60%); (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.