Pre-requisite: 62221/62032
The unit provides knowledge of the habitat preferences, ecophysiology, population dynamics and life history strategies of Australian terrestrial vertebrates, with an emphasis on mammals. The main theory topics are biogeography; the role of fire in the Australian environment; sampling and measuring wildlife habitat variables; ecophysiology of nutrition; comparative reproductive biology; ecomorphology and flight dynamics of bats; estimating animal abundance; principles of wildlife management.