BIOEE 4700

Herpetology, Lectures

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2020-2021.

Lectures cover various aspects of the biology of amphibians and reptiles, including evolution, zoogeography, ecology, behavior, and physiology.

When Offered Spring.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Recommended prerequisite: BIOEE 2740. 

• Acquire knowledge of the major groups of amphibians and reptiles, with respect to their main diagnostic characteristics.
• Move freely back and forth between classifications and evolutionary trees of amphibians and reptiles on a global basis.
• Synthesize, integrate, and discuss details of morphology, ecology, behavior, and physiology for major lineages of amphibians and reptiles.
• Have a working familiarity with the characteristics that distinguish ~50 species of amphibians and reptiles, including primarily those found in NY, as well as construct a key to an initially unknown fauna.
• Think integratively and synthetically about the biology and future of amphibians and reptiles on a global and local basis.

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