Students will gain in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals of population and community
ecology and their application to marine environments.
Students will improve their analytical and experimental design skills by critically
reading
primary literature and writing up a formal grant proposal that requires them to
formulate a 
hypothesis and address it with replicated experiments.
Student mastery of the material  will be measured by 2 exams and the proposal write-up.

I.  Overview of Marine Environments
II.  Primary Producers in Marine Environments	
	Producers and processes involved in primary
          	production
	Factors affecting primary production
		Nutrient limitation
		Eutrophication
III.  Comsumers in Marine Environments
	Dynamics of populations of consumers
	Competition for resources among consumers
	Feeding and responses to food abundance
	Food selection by consumers
	Processing of consumed energy
		Energy budgets
IV.  Structure and Dynamics of Marine Communities	
	Trophic Structure
		Food webs
		Stable isotopes 
	Taxonomic structure:  Species diversity
	Spatial Structure: 
		Patchiness
		Habitat
	Development of  Structure in marine communities: 
   		Colonization 
		Succession

It is the student's responsibility to be familiar with the Univeristy of Georgia's
policy on academic honesty as published in the booklet
"A Culture of Honesty:  Policies and Procedures on Academic Honesty".  Evidence of
academic dishonesty will be turned over to the Office
of the Vice President for Academic Affairs for consideration and possible action. 
The minimum penalty for a student found guilty of
academic dishonesty is a grade of "F" in the course and a note on the student's
transcript.  There have been several recent changes in the
academic honesty policy at UGA.  This information is available on-line at
[http://www.uga.edu/~vpaa].  Click on the UGA Academic
Honesty Policy statement.