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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Beneath the Blue: The Importance of Marine Sediments
This course explored the importance of our planet’s seafloor and its part in global ecological, chemical and physical processes. Learners examined the vital role the seafloor plays in providing ecosystem services to society and the role organisms have in shaping this environment. Learners investigated the current rate at which humans are exploiting these habitats and explored what can be done to conserve these systems.
3 weeks, 3 hours per week
Martin Solan
Professor of Marine Ecology
University of Southampton
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explain what biodiversity is and how it evolved over geological time.
- Discuss why biodiversity is important and how marine communities deliver important services that benefit humans.
- Explore the diversity of marine sediments and how communities of organisms inhabit them.
- Identify marine organisms using a taxonomic key.
- Discuss the challenges of measuring and quantifying biodiversity in marine environments.
- Demonstrate an understanding of functional groups.
Syllabus
- The composition and global distribution of marine sediments.
- Biodiversity; how it is measured and how it has changed through geological time.
- Scientific illustration and taxonomy (the classification of living organisms).
- Defining and classifying functional groups.
- How humans benefit from, and impact on, marine benthic ecosystem processes.
Issued on 23rd July 2020
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