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Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

MLML 614 - Advanced Physical Ecology of Marine Animals


This course examines the adaptations that animals have evolved to live in marine environments¿to deal with environmental gradients in water, temperature, salinity, oxygen, exercise and nutrients¿as well as short-term physiological responses to environmental changes. Topics include energy metabolism, sensory systems, respiration, circulation, thermoregulation, osmoregulation.

Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: (Instructor Consent) and (Introductory Biology, upper division vertebrate biology (physiology, ecology, or similar) and (Graduate Standing))
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years

Units: 4