Marine Botany I

The main topics covered are:

-Geophysical growth regime of northern phytoplankton (hydrophysics, elements and irradiance)

-Communities and dynamics (species composition, taxonomy, ice flora, bloom dynamics)

-Selected themes, e.g. "biological pump", "usefulness of field research", "is Sverdrup dead?..

The course deals with important basic (classical) aspects of high latitude phytoplankton, i.e. the species of northern microalgae communities and characteristics of the environment they thrive in. Included is a survey of the hydrophysical and phytoplankton literature of the Norwegian Coast northwards from the Arctic Circle.

The course comprise 9 main lectures (2 hrs.) plus 1 hr. seminar floowing each lecture. The students shall prepare thoroughly to each lecture and also organize the seminars (1 hr.). At least 2 of the main teachers are present at each seminar. The syllabus literature (36 review articles) will be given out)