MARINE PLANT ECOLOGY

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Prerequisite: MARS 2335 or BIOL 2120.An ecology course (BIOL 2100 or ENVL 2200) is recommended. A marine ecology course that specializes in plants. Marine plants interact with one another and with animals in marine habitats and are essential in understanding these habitats. This course looks at the wide variety of patterns in the distribution and strategies of these plants and studies the ecological processes (competition, predation, allelopathy, and symbiosis) which shape the marine community.Faculty: C. SLOCUM