MS4322

This course is an introduction to marine plants: the microalgae, the seaweeds, and the flowering plants. The course consists of a survey of marine plants and discussions of their morphology, systematic relations, life histories, ecology, physiology, and economic uses. The course also covers marine primary productivity and the importance of plants to all other life in the ocean. There is a lab component and a field component. Students will learn how to take samples for algae and to identify and enumerate the algae. Field trips will include visits to local coasts and to the Gray Herbarium in Woods Hole.

Books/Materials >$50, MSSEP Elective