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ESCI 425: Environmental Biology of FishesWinter Quarter |
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Instructor: Leo Bodentseiner Office: ES442 Phone: 650-7375 email: leobode@cc.wwu.edu Office hours: TBA (sign-up near door) and by appointment |
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| Text: Behavior and Ecology of Pacific Salmon and Trout by Thomas Quinn | |||||||||
| Course description: the morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations of fish to environmental conditions and response to envrionmental changes, particularly those anthropogenically caused. | |||||||||
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| Grading: A 92+; A- 90+; B+ 88+; B 83+; B- 80+; C+ 78+; C 73+; C- 70+; D 60+; F <60 | |||||||||
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| Introduction to course Morphology of fishes Diversity and genetic relationships |
Ch. 1 Lecture and handouts Lecture and handouts |
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| Physiological and behavioral ecology Physical and chemical constraints Feeding Bioenergetics Daily and seasonal activity |
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| Growth Reproduction |
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| Population dynamics Predators and parasites Competitors Dynamics Life history strategies |
8 9 10 11 |
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| Community ecology Fish communities |
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