- Choose a primary organism/physiological system.
- Next consider how an environmental stress (likely an operational factor) will affect that physiological system (and/or whether behavior will buffer it).
- Further, how might that response affect one or more other physiological systems (hint: the linked mass-energy budgets might be one approach…hormonal integration might be another). This is the integration part of the course.
- Also, will this stress affect some members of the population more than others (e.g., juveniles versus adults, due to differences in size, physiological state, or developmental state)?
- Does this response have other effects within its ecosystem?
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