PROFESSOR: Dr. Tony D Williams (tdwillia@sfu.ca)                          LABORATORY: B 8273 (Phone: 291-4982)

PREREQUISITE: BISC 201

This course will deal with how animals function in their environment. As such we will consider the major environmental features that have shaped the evolution of physiological systems: energy and temperature, oxygen, and water, as well as mechanisms of coordination and integration of these physiological systems.

1. Energy - metabolism (2 lectures), temperature (2)
2. Oxygen - gas exchange (4), blood and circulation (6)
3. Water - osmoregulation (3), excretion (2)
4. Coordination/integration - movement and muscles (5), nerves and nervous sytems (8), chemical communication (2), sensory systems (2)

3 lectures and 1 tutorial per week

There will be four tutorial exercises, each of which will be completed over 2-3 weeks; these exercises will be quantitative and will involve computing, statistical analysis and graphing.

MARK DISTRIBUTION:

Tutorial work - 25%
Midterm - 25%
Final exam - 50%

REQUIRED TEXT:

Withers, P. (1992) Comparative Animal Physiology. Saunders College Publishing, New York.

COURSE FEE: $ 3.00

RECOMMENDED TEXTS:

(1) Eckert, R., Randall, D. and Augustine, G. (1988) Animal Physiology: Mechanisms and Adaptations. Third Edition, W.H. Freeman & Company, New York; (2) Schmidt-Nielsen, K. (1994). Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (3) Louw, G. (1993). Physiological Animal Ecology. Longman, Harlow.

Check out the BISC 305 web site at http://www.sfu.ca/bisc/bisc-305/ for more details