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Μarine Biology


Lesson code: 
ES4056
Teaching Units: 
3
Credits (ECTS): 
9
Teachning (hours): 
3
Practical (hours): 
2
Laboratory (hours): 
0

Cognitive: Training students on key issues of the marine ecosystem structure and function. Uunderstanding human impact on the marine environment.
Affective: Awareness on marine life through the knowledge of its diversity, organization, and threats.
Skills: Gaining experience in identifying major groups of marine organisms, focusing on the characteristic species of the main communities. Knowledge and use of sampling tools.
 

Teaching Methods: 

Lectures, educational films, practical training in the field, reports and discussion during lectures and exercises.

Course Contents: 

Subject and history of Marine Biology. Methods of marine research. Characteristics of the marine ecosystem and comparison with the terrestrial ecosystem. Marine organisms (plants, invertebrates, fishes, reptiles, birds, mammals). Rocky shore and soft-bottom intertidal communities. Estuarine ecosystem. Sublittoral communities. Major tropical ecosystems (coral reefs, mangrove forests). Life in the epipelagic zone. Life in great depths (mesopelagic, bathypelagic zone, benthos in the deep sea, deep-sea hot springs). Evolution of life in the sea. Resources from the sea. Human impact on the marine environment (pollution, conservation). Characteristics of the Mediterranean ecosystem.

Lecturers: 
VOULTSIADOU ELENI
CHINTIROGLOU C. CHARITON
GANIAS KONSTANTINOS
Laboratory Exercises: 

(optional) 1. Educational films, 2. Presentation of reports and discussion

Υπαίθριες ασκήσεις: 

1. Intertidal soft-substratum communities, 2. Intertidal hard-substratum communities 3. Communities of sea grasses, 4. Communities associated with sponges, 5. Communities of the soft photophilic algae, 6. Mussel beds communities, 7. Sublittoral soft-substratum communities, 8. Marine pollution, 9. Estuarine ecosystems. 10. Sampling marine organisms, fishing gears of coastal and dynamic fisheries, 12. Fisheries resources.

Recommended books: 

It is given at each lecture.

Recommended reading: 

It is given at each lecture.

Learning Activities: 

Attending lectures, watching educational films, training in the field, report preparation.

Assessment Methods: 

Written exams assessing knowledge and critical thinking, evaluation of reports, general assessment of the students’ knowledge and interest during the teaching activities.

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