Community Ecology in the Tropics

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Credits 3. 2 Lecture Hours. 3 Lab Hours. Field-based exploration of the connections between producers and consumers in tropical marine ecosystems, including coral reefs, seagrass meadows, and mangrove forests; immersive understanding of symbiotic relationships that shape ecological communities, including mutualism, predation, and competition, with an emphasis on nearshore ecosystems in the tropics. Prerequisites: MARB 215 ; swim test completion; concurrent enrollment in MARB 422 .