Subject Code: CL5L314 Subject Name:   Biological Oceanography L-T-P:  3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s):  Nil
Oceanic life and ecosystems, biological productivity of ocean, biological exploitation of ocean, uses  and problems of ocean, theories of population in marine ecological communities, mathematical models, ecological fluxes, scale analysis, effects of marine pollution on living resources. Physico-biological models, estuarine biological modeling, coastal ecosystem modeling.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. James W. Nybakken. Marine Biology: An Ecological Approach,Benjamin Cummings.
  2. Patricia A. Wheeler, Charles B. Miller. Biological Oceanography,  Wiley-Blackwell  
  3. Timothy R. Parsons, Carol Lalli.  Biological Oceanography: An Introduction. Butterworth-Heinemann