| Generalities |
Unit 1. Marine habitat. Introduction and general characters. Influential environmental factors in the photosynthetic organisms: light, temperature, substrata, hydrodinamism, tides, salinity, pH, nutrients and polution. Interactions between organisms: predation, simbiosis, epibiosis, endobiosis, parasitism.
Unit 2. Phytoplankton. General characters, importance, floristic groups and populational dynamics.
Unit 3. Phytobenthos. General characteristics of their communities. Classification of bentic organisms according to sustrata.
Unit 4. Phytobenthos. Ecophysiology. Adaptations to the habitat conditions . Morphological diversity, life histories, biological types and vital forms.
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| Diversity |
Unit 5. Descriptive and systematics of red seaweeds (Rhodophyta): main groups and characteristic species.
Unit 6. Descriptive and systematics of Brown seaweeds (Ochrophyta): main groups and characteristic species.
Unit 7. Descriptive and systematics of green seaweeds (Chlorophyta): main groups and characteristic species.
Unit 8. Descriptive and systematics of other benthic organisms: Cyanophyta, seagrass, fungi and lichens: main groups and characteristic species.
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