BIOL 457: Behavioral Ecology Lab

Course Description

An experimental approach to examining behavior in a scientific and objective way, focusing on the influence of ecology and evolution. Topics include experimental design, hypothesis testing, statistical analysis, ethological methods, behavioral ecology and genetics, natural and sexual selection, kin selection, optimality modeling, game theory modeling, evolutionary stable strategies, life-history traits, demographics, ecological interactions (predator, prey, parasitism, mutualism, competition), phylogenetics, the comparative method and both parametric and non-parametric statistics. (YR).