Guia docente 2017_18
Facultad de Biología
University Master's Degree in Marine Biology
 Subjects
  Marine Botany
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Generalities Subject 1. Half marine. Introduction and general characters. Influential environmental factors in the photosynthetic organisms: light, temperature, *sustrato, *hidrodinamismo, tides, salinity, pH, nutrients and *contaminantes. Interactions between organisms: *depredación, *simbiosis, *epibiosis, *endobiosis, parasitism.

Subject 2. Phytoplankton. General characters, importance, groups *florísticos and populational dynamics.

Subject 3. *Fitobentos. General characteristics of the communities *fitobentónicas and classification of the organisms *bentónicos according to the *sustrato.Adaptations to the conditions of the half. Morphological diversity, vital cycles, biological types and vital forms.
Diversity Subject 4. Descriptive and systematic of red seaweeds (*Rhodophyta): main groups and characteristic species.

Subject 5. Descriptive and systematic of seaweeds *pardas (*Ochrophyta): main groups and characteristic species.

Subject 6. Descriptive and systematic of green seaweeds (*Chlorophyta): main groups and characteristic species.

Subject 7. Descriptive and systematic of other organisms *bentónicos: *cianofíceas, phanerogams, funguses and *líquenes: main groups and characteristic species.
Ecology and biogeography Subject 8. Ecology of the *fitobentos. Distribution of the marine organisms: vertical or zonation, temporary or succession and space or *biogeográfica. Diagrams of zonation of the seaboard and his nomenclature. *Estacionalidad Of the flora.

Subject 9. Biogeography. Definition, methodology and indexes. Factors that influence in the distribution of the marine vegetables: temperature and latitude. Units *biogeográficas.

Subject 10. Marine marine vegetation in the Atlantic North and Mediterranean.

Subject 11. Marine vegetation of the Iberian Peninsula and of Galicia. Exposed coasts, *semiexpuestas, protected and *estuáricas: diversity, descriptive and zonation.
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