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Wildlife Biology-BISC 419
Winter 2000
The goal of the course is to present and discuss general biological principles relevant to the management of wildlife populations. Wildlife will be defined broadly to include both game and non-game vertebrate, mostly endothermic, terrestrial, free-living species of commercial, recreational or educational interest to humans. Wildlife management, which is the art of finding compromises between competing human interests that involve wildlife, will not be covered. In lectures general principles will be presented and elucidated using case studies taken from the literature. In the lab sessions we will first learn about the characteristics and diversity of mammals and birds, with an emphasis on local fauna. This will be followed by a more in-depth study of avian anatomy, and depending on our luck, an expose of avian parasites. Finally, there will be a term paper (more details later) and a very interesting final exam.
Instructor.- Dr. George A. Lozano
Teaching Assistant.- Brent Gurd
Lectures.- Tue and Thu 12:30 AQ3005
Labs.- Tue, Wed, and Thu 13:30
Textbook.- None, but it would be useful to get bird and mammal field guides.
Final Exam.- April 18, 2000.
| GRADING | |
| Lab Exam | 20% |
| Paper | 20% |
| Midterm Exam | 30% |
| Final Exam | 30% |
| LABS | |
| January | lab 1.- Mammalia I |
| January | lab 2.- Mammalia II |
| January | lab 3.- Aves I |
| February 1 | lab 4.- Aves II |
| February 8 | lab 5.- Aves III |
| February 15 | Labs cancelled |
| February 22 | lab 6.- Bird Anatomy and parasites I |
February 29 | lab 7.- Bird Anatomy and parasites II |
| March | lab 9.- Field Trip |
| March | lab 10.- Work on your paper |
| March | LAB EXAM in during class hour, on Thursday!! |
| March | lab 12. – Prepare for the final |
| April | lab 13.- Prepare for the final |
I will attempt to cover the following topics in lecture, in more or less this order.
Energy requirements
-Maintenance
-Metabolic rates (basal, resting, field)
-Physical space
-Cover and refugia
-Growth
-Reproduction
-Digestive anatomy and physiology
Physiological condition indices (Dr. Chris Guglielmo)
Energy Transfer
-Food chains
-Trophic levels
-Stable isotopes
Interactions 1.- Predation
Interactions 2.-Competition
Interactions 3.- Parasitism, Disease and Immunity
Statistics-very basic
Population Biology
-life-history tables
-death, birth, migration, emigration
-dispersal (natal and breeding)
-censusing techniques
-additive vs. compensatory mortality
-maximum and optimum yields
Island biogeography (Brent Gurd)
Seabird conservation (Dr. Doug Bertram)
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