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BIOL171 HM - Analysis of Aquatic Ecosystems.


Credit(s): 4

MBL Staff. The nature and controls of ecosystem processes (production, decomposition, element cycling, and biogeochemistry) in freshwater, estuarine, and marine ecosystems. Application of basic principles of ecosystems ecology to contemporary environmental problems such as coastal eutrophication, fisheries exploitation, effects of introduced species, acid deposition, and global change. Includes lecture, discussion, laboratory, and field work. Offered only through the Semester in Environmental Science Program at the MBL Ecosystems Center, Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (Fall)

Prerequisite(s): BIOL052 HM , BIOL054 HM , BIOL154 HM , CHEM023D HM , CHEM023E HM , CHEM023S HM CHEM024 HM , and (MATH030B HM  or MATH030G HM )