Marine Plankton Ecology

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Examination of worldwide relationships between physical-chemical environment and planktonic organisms. Organism descriptions; effects of light, temperature, salinity, density, water motion and chemical constituents on organisms; interactions among different organisms emphasizing competition and predation; community structure, distribution and succession; and mathematics models of distribution, production and interaction. In this course, we will review and discuss recent literature in plankton ecology, highlighting both the ecological roles of key taxa and the methodological advances that enable ecosystem perspectives.