COURSE TOPIC: EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY OF MARINE MAMMALS PRE-REQS: Q SCI 381 AND FISH 250 AND ONE OF FISH 290, MARBIO 205, FHL 333, OR EQUIV ADD CODE: HTTPS://TINYURL.COM/SAFSADDCODE – AFS & MARBIO MAJORS WHO MEET PRE-REQS WILL RECEIVE PRIORITY.

• Explore the diverse and integral ecological roles played by marine mammals in our global aquatic ecosystems, from coastal and riverine to open ocean and deep ocean
• Examine the major evolutionary adaptations driving the radiation of mammals into the aquatic environment and into a diverse array of ecological
• Consider the evolutionary strategies and ecological roles that are used by marine mammals and how those roles help shape aquatic ecosystems.
• Learn about ecological concepts such as food web dynamics, predator-prey interactions, and trophic cascades; animal movements and distributions; community assemblages; and ecological drivers of isolation, divergence, and mixing.
• Consider our own species’ role in the evolutionary ecology of marine

Registration restrictions: TBD

Marine Bio major requirements: Ecology and ecosystems elective, other marine biology elective, 400-level elective

Marine Bio minor requirements: Aquatic and Fishery Sciences elective