AQ3007 - Aquatic Animal Ecophysiology

Credit points:	03
Year:	2017
Student Contribution Band:	Band 2
Administered by:	College of Science and Engineering

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.

Assumed Knowledge:	Students enrolling in this subject should have a good understanding of basic biology, particularly zoology, and should have completed BS2001 or BZ2001 or AQ2001 or equivalent.
Prerequisites:	At least 12 credit points of Level 2 AQ, BC, BZ, CH, EA, EV, MA, MB or PH science subjects and 3 credit points of level 2 aquaculture subjects.
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	AQ5007

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 24-Aug-2017
Coord/Lect:	jc172528.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 24 hours practicals
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); assignments (50%).

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