Study of the interrelationships between individuals, their communities and environment. Explores the environmental biology of fish, feeding ecology, energetics and growth, population biology, reproduction and life history, and population and community interactions. Two hours of lecture and four hours of laboratory per week. Comprehensive analysis of the ecology and management of wetlands and submersed aquatic vegetation at several scales of organization from physiological, through population, community, and systems levels. Couplings with surrounding systems on land-margin interface will be emphasized, along with applications to current management issues.
Paper is required.
Field trips and lab work will complement topics covered in the lectures. Also offered as NRMT 450. Plant and animal communities, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem properties of wetland systems. Laboratory emphasizes collection and analysis of field data on wetland vegetation, soil, and hydrology. General introduction to the physical oceanography of estuarine and marine systems.