Informal lectures and seminars with intensive field and laboratory work on different marine habitats and the animals and plants associated with them. Student projects included. Ecology or Environmental Biology course BIO302H1 Arctic Ecosystems TBA Offered in the summer at Churchill Northern Studies Centre, Churchill, Man. or Kluane Lake, Yukon, of approximately two weeks duration and comprising lectures, botanical and zoological field studies and other aspects of arctic ecosystems. BIO303H1 Tropical Ecology and Evolution TBA A field course to introduce students to the diversity of biological communities in the tropics focussing on ecological and evolutionary interactions. Plant and animal communities of tropical sites in the New World tropics are compared and contrasted with temperate communities.
Students undertake small-scale research projects in the field.
Courses, of 1 or 2 weeks duration at field sites from May through August, are announced each January. Consult Professor J.D. Rising, Zoology Department. TBA Offered in the summer in Vietnam for approximately two weeks. Projects on other groups of organisms with prior approval. Comparisons of biodiversity of microhabitats in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems at a single site.