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Lecturer(s)
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Bureš Stanislav, prof. Ing. CSc.
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Course content
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Survival value of behaviour. Why has this behaviour evolved? Behavioural adaptations in a changing environment. Proximate and ultimate levels of behaviour. Natural selection, sexual selection, genetic basis of behaviour, sexual conflict, mating systems and parental care. Economic decisions, optimality models, competing for resources, predator-prey interactions, living in groups, co-operation and altruism, evolutionarily stable strategies, alternative breeding strategies. Testing hypotheses in behavioural ecology, confounding variables, creation of models, own research approaches, practise in seminars.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
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Learning outcomes
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Aim of this course is to explain importance of the behaviour for reproduction and surviving.
Student should be able to (after attending the course): - Explain the importance of the behaviour for reproduction and surviving. - Explain the behaviour at proximate and ultimate level, group, individual and gene (genotype) selection, genetic background of the behaviour. - Explain the sexual selection. - Explain the principle of the evolutionary stable strategies. - Test the hypotheses and design the experiments in etoecology.
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Oral exam
exam: knowledge in extent of the lectures
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Recommended literature
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Krebs, J. R., Davies, N. B. (1996). An introduction to behavioural ecology. Blackwell, Oxford.
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