This module provides students with the fundamental knowledge of the trade-offs marine organisms experience when adapting to their environment. Students will explore the limitations that the physical environment imposes, as well as the evolutionary and physio-behavioural constraints faced by marine organisms.
Students will also learn how these constraints shape the marine organisms’ life history, body form, communication, locomotive, foraging, and predator avoidance strategies. At the end of the module, students would be able to explain the behavioural and anatomical adaptive traits of major marine taxa in relation to their environment.