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MB3050 - Biological Oceanography
Credit points: |
3 |
Year: |
2012 |
Student Contribution Band: |
Band
4 |
Administered by: |
School of Marine & Tropical Biology |
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.
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.
Assumed Knowledge:
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Students enrolling in this subject should have a good understanding of basic biological
principles (eg BZ1001) and marine systems (eg MB2050) and should have completed either
BS2001 or MB2060.
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Prerequisites: |
(BS2001 OR BZ2001 OR AG2001) OR MB2060 |
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:
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MB5055 AND MB3059 |
Availabilities
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Townsville,
Study Period 1,
Internal
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Census Date 22-Mar-2012 |
Coordinator: |
Professor Michael Kingsford |
Lecturers:
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<Person not found>, Professor Michael Kingsford. |
Workload expectations: |
- 26 hours lectures
- 26 hours practicals
- 13 hours workshops/Seminars
- 8 hours fieldwork
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Assessment: |
end of semester exam (60%); assignments (20%); tutorial assignment; (20%). |
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