Course Descriptions

BIOL 59500 Sensory Ecology

Session Offered:

Spring Credit 3.0

Prerequisites:

BIOL 28600. 

Description:

Course offered every other Spring. Next offering will be Spring 2020, Spring 2022, Spring 2024. 

The course covers the adaptive significance of sensory information as it relates to ecological interactions in animals.  Topics will include an overview of sensory systems, aspects of predator-prey relationships, sexual selection, communication, perception of environmental cues, and animal movement patterns.

Instructor(s):

JEFFREY LUCAS
ESTEBAN FERNANDEZ- JURICIC

E-mail:

jeffrey.r.lucas.1@purdue.edu
efernan@purdue.edu

Textbook(s):

~No textbook required for this course~

Course Format:

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