Legacy Course Catalog
BIOL 434 - Marine Community Ecology
| Effectivity: | 08/20/2001 - Fall 2007 *** @ Purdue Fort Wayne Traditional |
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| Credits: | 3 |
| Instructional Types: | Lab Lec |
| Usually Offered: | spr |
| Short Title: | Marine Comm Ecology |
| Description: | Lecture involves a survey emphasizing tropical marine communities including coral reefs, mangrove estuaries, turtle grass, and hard and soft substrate interidal communities. Community processes such as predation, competition, mutualism, zonation and behavior are discussed as well as physical-chemical factors such as tides, currents, waves and salinity. Course includes a required field trip to a marine biological station over spring break for the lab portion. Student required to pay for expenses associated with field trip. Prerequisite for field trip: swimming/snorkeling ability; use of scuba gear is optional. |
| Department: | Biology |
| Credit By Exam: | NO |
| Repeatable Flag: | NO |
| Temporary Flag: | NO |
| Full Time Privilege Flag: | NO |
| Honors Flag: | NO |
| Variable Title Flag: | NO |
Fall 2007 *** indicates the course was still an active course and was transferred to the Banner Catalog effective Spring 2008. This course was not expired Fall 2007.
