BIOS5810 – Comparative and Ecological Physiology
Course description
Course content
The course provides an introduction towards how different animal groups physiologically adapt to various environments and life history strategies. The diversity of physiological adaptations will be emphasized. Key areas will be respiration in water and air, circulation, energy metabolism, effect of temperature, regulation of water and ions, sensory physiology and adaptations to extreme environmental conditions.
Learning outcome
After completing this course, you can:
- Explain physiological challenges animals face in various habitats and environments, and which physiological mechanisms they use to overcome these challenges
- Execute small, controlled experiments
- Use available library tools
- Write basic scientific reports based on your?own experiments, including formulating a hypothesis, and describe and discuss the results
- Give a short oral presentation about your own experiments
Admission to the course
Students admitted at UiO must?apply for courses?in Studentweb. Students enrolled in other Master's Degree Programmes can, on application, be admitted to the course if this is cleared by their own study programme.
Nordic citizens and applicants residing in the Nordic countries may?apply to take this course as a single course student.
If you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about?admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.
Applicants are ranked by the following criteria:
- Master students and PhD students at the MN faculty who have the course as part of the approved curriculum.
- Students with admission to single courses on master’s level and exchange students
Applicants are ranked by credits in each group; all applicants within 1st rank before applicants in 2nd etc. If admission is limited to a fixed number of participants, admission will be decided by drawing lots for students who are ranked equally