課程資訊
課程名稱
 行為生態學
Behavioural Ecology 
開課學期
 112-1 
授課對象
 生命科學院  生命科學系  
授課教師
 何熙誠 
課號
 EEB5101 
課程識別碼
 B44EU2130 
班次
  
學分
 3.0 
全/半年
 半年 
必/選修
 選修 
上課時間
 星期四6,7,8(13:20~16:20) 
上課地點
 生科842 
備註
 本課程以英語授課。
總人數上限：15人 
  
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課程概述

Behavioural Ecology takes an evolutionary perspective to address the mechanisms and processes that have shaped the current form and utility of various aspects of animal behaviour. The course consists of weekly three-hour lectures, a bit take-home literature reading, and a group research project. The lectures cover major topics in Behavioural Ecology and introduce relevant research approaches. The literature reading provides a glimpse of cutting‑edge research in the field. The group project allows students to experience the entire process of conducting a behaviour study, practising the theories and approaches learnt from the lectures. 

課程目標
 From the course, students are expected to comprehend a broad spectrum of behavioural concepts and theories. They should become familiar with searching, reading, and discussing new publications in the field of Behavioural Ecology, and be able to logically design and conduct small-scale, hypothesis-testing behaviour research in a collaborative manner. 
課程要求
 Students should have taken General Biology (required), Ecology (suggested), and Basic Statistics (suggested), or courses called otherwise but deliver more or less the same knowledge. The final grade consists of: take-home midterm and take-home final exams (50%), paper presentation (15%), group project (25%), and participation (10%). 
預期每週課後學習時數
  
Office Hours
 另約時間 備註： Please contact the teaching assistant or the teacher beforehand. 
指定閱讀
 Early in the semester, students will be provided with a collection of recently published papers encompassing the course’s thematic topics as take-home readings.  
參考書目
 The weekly lectures are based on a classic textbook: Behavioural Ecology. Danchin, Giraldeau, and Cézilly (2008). Buying a textbook is not mandatory, as its content will be covered in slides and shared with students.  
評量方式
(僅供參考)
    
針對學生困難提供學生調整方式
  
上課形式
 以錄影輔助
作業繳交方式
 學生與授課老師協議改以其他形式呈現
考試形式
其他
 由師生雙方議定
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第1週
 Sep. 7  Lecture:
Behavioural Ecology: history and fundamental concepts (Ch. 1–2).
Assignments/activities:
Provide paper collection. 
第2週
 Sep. 14  Lecture:
Research methods in Behavioural Ecology (Ch. 3–4).
Assignments/activities:
Group students for projects. 
第3週
 Sep. 21  Lecture:
Solitary and social foraging (Ch. 7–8).
Assignments/activities:
Settle students’ paper selection. 
第4週
 Sep. 28  Holiday – no lecture. 
第5週
 Oct. 5  Lecture:
Interspecific parasitism and mutualism (Ch. 17). 
第6週
 Oct. 12  Lecture (if managable):
Life history strategies, hormones and behavioural syndromes (Ch. 5–6)
Assignments/activities:
Students’ flash presentation of selected papers 1.
Discuss group project (proposal due in 2 weeks). 
第7週
 Oct. 19  Lecture:
Habitat choice and dispersal (Ch. 9–10).
Assignments/activities:
Distribute take-home midterm (due in 2 weeks). 
第8週
 Oct. 26  Lecture:
Animal aggregations (Ch. 14).
Assignments/activities:
Students hand in group project proposal. 
第9週
 Nov. 2  Lecture:
The adaptive evolution of social traits (Ch. 15).
Assignments/activities:
Students hand in take-home midterm. 
第10週
 Nov. 9  Lecture:
Communication, sensory ecology, and signal evolution (Ch. 16). 
第11週
 Nov. 16  Lecture:
Sexual selection (Ch. 11) 
第12週
 Nov. 23  Lecture:
Mating systems and parental care (Ch. 12).
Assignments/activities:
Check each group’s project progress. 
第13週
 Nov. 30  Lecture:
Sex allocation (Ch. 13). 
第14週
 Dec. 7  Assignments/activities:
Students’ flash presentation of selected papers 2.
Distribute take-home final exam. 
第15週
 Dec. 14  Lecture:
Behavioural ecology and humans: aspects of conservation andcultural evolution (Ch. 18–20). 
第16週
 Dec. 21  Assignments/activities:
Group project presentation &
hand in: group project report & take-home final exam.