Biology 740

Physiological Ecology

Fall 2001

8/30 Introduction: environmental and evolutionary physiology; organisms and habitats; run-hide-tolerate!

9/4 Water balance: principles; colligative properties; consequences

/6 Regulatory mechanisms: volume control vs anisosmotic extracelluar regulation.

/11 Functional morphology: nephridia and nitrogen -- aquatic/terrestrial invertebrates

/13 Aquatic vertebrates

/18 Avian-mammalian kidney

/20 Renal and extrarenal physiology

/25 Paper presentations

/27 "

10/2 "

/4 Availability of oxygen; external respiration - cutaneous, gills, lungs

/9 Perfusion/ventilation

/11 Oxy-regulation vs conformity

/16 Regulatory mechanisms

/18 MIDTERM

/23 Effects of modifying factors on VO2

/25 Respiratory pigments/oxygen equilibria

/30 Paper presentations

11/1 "

/6 "

/8 Thermal physiology: principles, Q10, acclimation

/13 Tolerance, CTM, resistance adaptations

/15 Capacity adaptations; molecular mechanisms

/20 Vertebrate endothermy

/22 THANKSGIVING

/27 Heterothermy and behavioral endothermy

/29 Paper presentations

12/4 "

/6 "

12/10 Final Exam 9:00 am