4335.03/5335.03 — Environmental Impacts in Marine Ecosystems
Prerequisites: BIOL 2001 Marine Diversity, BIOL 2060 Introductory Ecology, MATH 1000 Differential and Integral Calculus, STAT 1060 Introductory Statistics, or permission of instructor.
Consideration of various activities in marine environments, with focus on ecosystem level influ-ences: dispersion, elemental fluxes, benthic impacts, food webs, biodiversity. Simulation model-ling of ecosystems is undertaken using Simile OOP software. Classes include lectures, modelling examples, and discussion of research papers, Course requirements consist of problem sets and modelling project.
