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Diversity of aquatic habitats and their vegetation; Growth forms and life form classifications; Distribution and growth of aquatic macrophytes; Reproductive strategies of aquatic macrophytes; Structural and dynamic characteristics of aquatic plant communities: Primary production and energetics; Nutrient uptake and release; Problems and control of noxious weeds: conservation of aquatic macrophytes

Affinities and evolution of higher algae; bryophytes; pteridophytes; A systematic survey of major vascular and non-vascular epiphytes; Ecology of epiphytes; Functions of epiphytes environmental monitoring and ecosystem stabilization

Intensive studies of the factors affecting the abundance and distribution of animals in tropical terrestrial ecosystems (lowland forests; savanna; deserts and montane systems); Community structure; functions and dynamics; Adaptation of animals to different tropical environments and the effect of human activities on tropical ecosystems; Ecology of coastal and tropical inland waters like estuaries; lagoons; rivers; natural and artificial lakes; The inter-relationships of fauna and flora; Man's influences on the aquatic environment

OLS; Gauss-Markov Theorem; MLE; Specification and misspecification test; Predictive and non-predictive tests; Tests of hypothesis for linear model; The likelihood ratio; wald and language multiplier Tests; Multi-collinearity; Specification bias; GLS; Dummy variables and seasonal variations; Inferences based on asymptotic Distribution Theory

An introduction to various issues, the nature of economic science, the methodology of economics, major areas of specialization in economics, elementary principles of micro- and macro-economics, current issues of interest and probable future developments. Micro-economic theory, problem of scarce resources and allocation of resources. Supply and demand theory, Consumer behaviour. Production theory. Cost curves. Pricing and output under perfect competition, imperfect competition, monopoly and monopolistic competition. Relationship between micro- and macro- economics. Aggregation of individual’s demands analysis of consumer behaviour utility theory and individual’s demand for a good a geometric treatment aggregate supply – a summation of firm supply curves individual firm’s equilibrium – theory of cost and production. A geometric treatment of pricing under different market systems.

Definition of economics of health information, and marketing of health information, theories of national choice and utility applied to health information products/ services, demands and uses of health information products. Cost theory of health information models of value of health information products: exchange, use and expectation value, supply and demand functions of health information, marketing mix: price, product, place and promotion as applied to health information (products/ services), market aggregation and segmentation, consumer behavior. Health information life cycle development, market research, health information brokerage, writing proposal, marketing communication, costing and pricing methods.

Land as a scarce and exhaustible resources. Location theory, economic basis of urbanization, conflicting and competing demands for land use and conservation. Relationship between land use and land value. Effect of land use and land value on the operation of price mechanism. The process of land development economics of real estate, nature and function of the urban property, urban area, financial development and economic concepts.

Land as a scarce and exhaustible resources. Location theory, economic basis of urbanization, conflicting and competing demands for land use and conservation. Relationship between land use and land value. Effect of land use and land value on the operation of price mechanism. The process of land development economics of real estate, nature and function of the urban property, urban area, financial development and economic concepts.

The study of major pollutants: oil and petrochemical; heavy metals; solid wastes of aerial; terrestrial and aquatic environment and their effects on other components of ecosystems; The study of radiation and plant life; Survey of environmental pollution control and measures

Sources of exposure to toxins; Natural and man-made toxins; Toxins in the Nigerian environment; Bioassay for ecotoxins; Resistance and evaluation of toxicity; Radiation biology