Lectures for Bio 211 - Land Vertebrates

Date
 
Lecture
Topic
 
1

Course orientation and introduction to terrestrial vertebrates
 
2

The basic vertebrate design and evolution I: The emergence of vertebrates and prehistoric vertebrate groups
 
3

The basic vertebrate design and evolution II: Non-amniote evolution and the subsequent emergence of modern extant vertebrate lineages.
 
4

Extant vertebrate diversity I: Turtles and squamates
 
5

Extant vertebrate diversity II: Crocodiles, birds, and mammals
 
6

Vertebrate sensory capabilities: Vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch, and others....
 
7

Food, Sex, & Death: a primer on natural selection and the ecology of terrestrial vertebrates
 
8

Ectothermy (Fish and herps)
 
9

Endothermy (Birds and mammals)
 
10

Vertebrate reproductive tactics I: The ecology of egg laying
 
11

Vertebrate reproductive tactics II: The ecology of live birth
 
12

Vertebrate migration I: Patterns of movement and ultimate explanations
 
13

Vertebrate migration II: Orientation, navigation, and proximate explanations
 
14

Vertebrate herbivores
 
15

Vertebrate carnivores
 
16

Vertebrate parasites and diseases
 
17

Vertebrate social behavior
 
18

Global patterns of vertebrate distribution and abundance
 
19)

Local patterns of vertebrate distribution and abundance
 
20

The ecological significance of vertebrate competition
 
21

Human impacts and loss of non-human vertebrate diversity
 
22

Careers in Vertebrate Biology/Course summation

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