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2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2011-2012 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

BIO 545 - Biological Oceanography

4 credits
3 hours lecture, 3 hours laboratory
Prerequisites: BIO 316 or permission of the instructor
The cycle of productivity in the marine environment and the physiological and morphological adaptations of plant, animal and bacterial populations within various oceanic regions. Interrelationships of the plankton, the nekton, and the benthos are stressed.