Behavioural Ecology

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This is the description of the class from the KU Leuven Website: During this course a student acquires a thorough knowledge of topical research in behavioural ecology and ethology thereby building on related disciplines such as ecology, genetics and physiology. The student is able to understand recent research papers in the field of behavioural ecology and based on this can develop a research project around a given hypothesis. The student has the expertise to plan, execute, analyze and critically interpret a behavioural experiment in an international research team, thereby takes a responsible role and is able to solve problems associated with the research project. He can orally communicate in English a critical summary of the group's findings to other researchers. This is the description of the exercises classes from the KU Leuven Website: Exercises Discussion of topical research and selected papers related to the content of the lectures Formulating hypotheses, designing and executing experiment to test specific hypothesis related to key topics in behavioural ecology. Analyzing and interpreting the results of the experiment in light of the hypothesis tested and presenting this to other students.