Educational guide 2025_26 Facultade de Ciencias do Mar

Máster Universitario en Oceanografía

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
SUBJECT 1.	Introduction and reflections to start with a course of global change. Ecological footprint and index of human development. Concept and aims of sustainable development.
SUBJECT 2.	Scales of natural variability and antropogénica: Approximation by means of distinct temporary and space scales. Tendencies interdecadales in primary production.
SUBJECT 3.	Multiple factors of stress: Temperature, stratification and nutrients. Interactive effects: experimental approximations and observations of field.
SUBJECT 4	Effect of the degradation of the layer of ozone and the increase of the radiation UV on the marine ecosystems. The cycle of the ozone. Penetration of the radiation UV in the half aquatic. Photodegradation and fotoinhibición. Direct and indirect effects of the radiation UV on the marine organisms.
SUBJECT 5.	Impact of the global change on the cycle of the carbon in the oceans. Oceanic acidification and coastal acidification. Effect of the increase of CO2 on the organisms and marine ecosystems. Blue Carbon: Capture and retention of CO2 in distinct marine ecosystems: marine meadows, marismas, mangroves, and systems planctónicos.
SUBJECT 6.	Impact of the global change on the biogeochemical cycles in the oceans. Eutrophication: coastal and atmospheric contributions. Massive proliferations of toxic phytoplankton.
SUBJECT 7.	Impact of the global change on the communities planctónicas. Answers of the community in front of the global change. Changes in the diversity, distribution and abundance of functional groups key: bacteria, phytoplankton and zooplancton.
SUBJECT 8.	Impact of the global change on the food webs *pelágicas. Changes in biomass of primary producers and consumers. Changes in the efficiency of transfer of the food webs.
SUBJECT 9.	Impact of the global change on the coastal ecosystems. Effects on the communities *bentónicas.