AQ3007 - Aquatic Animal Ecophysiology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
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The course teaches the principles of aquatic animal physiology and provides insight into the mechanisms involved in the stress, health, growth and reproduction of aquatic animals. A key focus is on how physiological systems respond to important environmental factors and the significance of animal adaptations in their ability to cope with environment stressors, whether it is a managed environment, such as in aquaculture, or in the natural environment.

Learning Outcomes

• demonstrate competence in experimental techniques of aquatic animal physiology;
• develop an understanding of the functional relationship between important environmental variables and the physiology of aquatic animals;
• understand the physiological adaptations of aquatic animals that allow them to cope with environmental extremes;
• develop insight into the operation of regulatory processes of physiological systems within aquatic animals, and how they interact with each other;
• demonstrate familiarity with the key literature in the field of aquatic animal physiology.

Prerequisites:	6 biology subjects including BS2001 BZ1020 (CH1001, MB1110 recommended).
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	ZL3037 and AQ5007

Availabilities
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Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coordinator:	Professor Rocky De Nys
Lecturers:	Professor Rocky De Nys, sci-ajf1.
Contact hours:	24 hours 2 hours 20 hours
Assessment:	(50%); (50%).

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