Behavioural Ecology (Bio4436G)

Course Outline

A copy of the course outline is available here.  Adobe PDF reader is required to view/print this document.  It is available free here.

Final Exam

Held during the examination period - please consult the UWO website for location and time.

Scientific Critique

You can download the guidelines by clicking here, and the first paper can be downloaded by clicking here.  Your first report is due in February (see outline).

The second critique can be downloaded by clicking here.

Presentations

Presentations will begin on March 17th. There will be two presentations per day, except on March 20th (Friday) when there will be six presenations. For the Friday class, please go to room NCB 114 for 2:30 PM. Each presentation should last 15 min with 5 min for questions. I will go over presentation style and approaches in class about a week before the first presentation. It is your responibility to ensure that your presentation works on the lecture room computer system. This can be especially important if you have video or sound files. So, please make sure you try your presentation on the computer at least a day in advance of your scheduled time.

***The presentation schedule can be downloaded by clicking here.

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TA and Animal Lab

TA
Shawn Garner (sgarner3@uwo.ca); office Collip 205, office hour by appointment.

Animal Behaviour Lab:
S arah Lee (sarahlee@uwo.ca; 661-2111 ext. 87435); office B&GS 3018
Joanne Wolf (jwolf3@uwo.ca; 661-2111 ext. 80216); office B&GS 2070

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Krebs & Davies 1993. An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology (3rd ed) recommended; on 2 hour loan from Betty Taylor Library UWO Bookstore link

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Adobe PDF reader is required to view/print these documents.  It is available free here.

*Chapter assignments are from Krebs & Davies' An Introduction to Behavioural Ecology

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Links of Interest

The Statistics assignment for the January labs can be downloaded here.

Download sample modelling questions for practice here.