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J.M. Webster 

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Dean of Science 

November 23, 1977 

In accordance with the motion passed at the Senate meeting 

of November 5, 1974, regarding the use of special topics courses, the 

following is a report from the Faculty of Science. 

Biolo g 

ical Sciences 

BISC 471 - Biology of Molluscs 

Vector: 0-0-0 

Course description: An advanced course of selected topics 

on the morphology, physiology, systematics and ecology of 

the Mollusca. 

Prerequisites: Advanced Standing in Invertebrate Biology. 

Professor: Dr. J. McInerney 

Enrollment: 2 students. 

Note: This course was offered at various three week intervals 

at the Bamfield Marine Station on Vancouver Island. 

Course outline: none given. 

BISC 472 - Biology of Marine Birds 

Vector: 0-0-0 

Course description: A study of the adaptations of birds to 

the marine environment. 

Prerequisites: Introductory Vertebrate Zoology 

Professor: Dr. J. Mclrierney 

Enrollment: 4 students. 

Note: This course was offered at the Bamfield Marine Station. 

on Vancouver Island. It is a three-week course. 

Course outline: Lectures will emphasize the systematics and 

ecological relationships, behaviour, life histories and 

conservation of seabrids. Field methods and census 

techniques will comprise the field-laboratory segment of the 

course. 

BISC 473 - Pollen Studies 

Vector: 0-0-0 

Course description: none given. 

Prerequisites: none given. 

Supervisor: Dr. R.W. Mathewes 

Enrollment: 1 student. 

Course outline: none given. 

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November 23, 1977 

BISC 473 - Predation Studies 

Vector: 0-0-0 

Course description: none given 

Prerequisites: none given 

Supervisor: Dr. B.E. Hartwick 

Enrollment: 1 student 

Course outline: none given. 

I have been advised that the Departments of Chemistry, 

Mathematics and Physics did not offer special topics courses during the 

Summer Semester 1977. 

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Dean of Science 

JMW/amd 

Further to my memorandum of November 23, 1977, I enclose 

additional information on the following courses: 

BISC 473 - Pollen Studies 

BISC 473 - Predation Studies. 

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UMMER 

POLLEN STUDIES 

Instructor: Dr. R.W. Mathewe 

This course is designed to cover the principles of pollen 

analysis, with emphasis on the theoretical basis of pollen production, 

identification, dispersal, and preservation in Pleistocene sediments, 

and the reconstruction of past environments from postglacial sediment 

cores. 

Text: Faegri, K. and Johs. Iversen (1974). Textbook of Pollen Analysis. 

Blackwells, Oxford. 

Selected papers were submitted to the student for critical reading 

throughout the semester. 

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Instructor: Dr. B. Iiartwick 

This course includes assigned readings in general theory of 

predation with emphasis on quantitative analysis and experimentation. 

Reading assignments will be followed by an in-depth study of some aspect 

of the predation process. 

READING LIST 

Bonar, L., 1936. An unusual ascomycete in the shells of marine 

animals. University of California Publications in Botany 

19: 187-192. 

Connell, J., 1970. A predator-prey system in the marine intertidal 

region: I. Balanus 9landula and several predatory species of 

Thais. Ecological Monographs 31: 49-78. 

Curio E. 1976. The ethology of predation. Springer-Verlag. 

Giesel, J., 1969. Factors influencing the growth and relative growth 

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of Acmaea digitalis, a limpet. Ecology 50: 1084-87. 

Giesel, J., 1970. On the maintenance of a shell pattern and behavior 

polymorphism in Acmaea digitalis, a limpet. Evolution 24: 

98-119. 

Hartwick, B., 1976. Foraging strategy of the Black Oyster Catcher 

(Haematopus bachmani). Canadian Journal of zoology 54: 142-155. 

Hartwick, B., 1977. Some observations on foraging by Black Oyster 

Catcher (Haematopus bachmani). unpublished. 

Hassel, M.P., 1976. Arthropod Predator - Prey Systems. In Theoretical 

Ecology ed. R. May. 

Hassel, M.P., J. H. Lawton and J. R. Beddington. 1976. The components 

of arthropod predation I. The prey death rate 

II. The predator rate of increase 

J. Anim. Ecol. 45. 

Hassel, M. P. The dynamics of competition and predation. Edward 

Arnold pub. 

Holling C.S. 1959. The components of predation as revealed by a study 

of small mammal predation of the European Pine Sawfly. Can. Ent. 

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Kettlewell, II., 

1955. 

Recognition of the appropriate background 

colors by the pale and black phase of Lepidopera. Nature 

175: 943-944. 

Lewis, 

3., & 

Bowman, R. 1975. Local habitat-induced variations in 

the population dynamics of Patella vulgata L.. Journal of 

Experimental Marine Biological Ecology 17: 165-203. 

Paine, R., 1969. The Pisaster-Tegula interaction: prey patches, 

predator food preference, and intertidal community structure. 

Ecology 30: 950-961. 

Paine, R., 1971. Energy flow in a natural population of the herbivorous 

gastropod Tegula finebralis. Limnological oceanography 16: 

86-98. 

Ricketts, E. & Calvin, 3., 1968. Between Pacific Tides. Stanford 

University Press, Stanford. 

Test, A., 1945. Ecology of California Acmaea. Ecology 26: 379-405. 

Vermeij, G. 1972. Intraspecific shore-level gradients in intertidal 

molluscs. Ecology 53: 693-700. 

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gastropods: 

G., 1973. Morphological patterns in high intertidal 

gastropods: Adaptive strategies and their limitations. 

Veliger 16: 319-346. 

Wolcott, T., 1973. Physiological ecology and intertidal zonation in 

limpets (Acrnaea): a critical look at limiting factors. 

Biological Bulletin 145: 389-422. 

Stirnson, J. & Black, R., 1975. Field experiments on population regions 

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in intertidal limpets of the genus Acmaea. Oecologia 18: 

111-120. 