Summary of feedback

Thank you for all participating in Behavioural Ecology!

I've summarized your feedback. I enjoyed the course as much as you did (mean lesson satisfaction ± SD: 8.36±1.12: 1-10 scale, 10 being most satisfied).

Here are two comments from your classmates:

"active and friendly process of the lesson"
"... thank you for different and not so generally known examples."

Review articles

Please feel free to post any information that you think will be useful for others writing review articles for Behavioural Ecology. You may also use this area to post questions or comments that you have about writing your review articles. Also, after you peer-review and receive your peer-reviews, this would be an excellent place to reflect on that experience.

There are many great topics and I'm excited to read them!

Lectures online

Thanks for doing a great job in our first lecture! As promised, I will post all the lecture content on our website. You will find links to each lecture to the right, and I will update these as quickly as I can. For those of you that follow the blog via email, you will get an email each time I post a new set of slides. I'm looking forward to an exciting term.

PDF Library

I have provided you with a variety of reading materials that you will find useful while studying Behavioural Ecology. We have access to most of these papers through our university's library license. For papers that you cannot access, I have password protected my personal copies so you will have access to these papers as well. I will tell you the password in person or via email.

In addition to the required reading assignments that you see to the right, I have included a page that provides access to a number of papers that we will discuss in class or which relate to our course content.

Welcome

Behavioural ecology examines how ecological pressures shape behaviour. I will use this site to communicate with participants of our Behavioural Ecology course at Palacký University. On this site you will find lectures, we will publish our review papers, and to foster online discussion about classic and contemporary literature.

In this course, we will learn about the core concepts of behavioural ecology through a mixture of contemporary and classic literature. We will examine the adaptive significance of numerous behaviours by examining their function, cause, development, and evolutionary histories. We will cover a variety of topics ranging from natural and sexual selection, predator and prey interactions, competition, sexual conflict, mating systems, parental care, signal design, and communication.