August 11, 2016
Introduction
August 16, 2016
Scientific computing I:
Handout
Exercise
August 18, 2016
Scientific computing II
Exercise
August 23, 2016
Population growth and decline
Chapter 1: Population growth & decline
Lecture slides
August 25, 2016
Group project work: Population dynamics
Chapter 2: Density dependence
August 30, 2016
Density dependence & complex dynamics
Chapter 3: Complex dynamics
terns2: testing for density dependence in data
Lecture slides
September 1, 2016
Group project work: Population dynamics
Chapter 4: Extinction
September 6, 2016
Age structure
Chapter 5: Age-structure
Exercise
Lecture slides
September 8, 2016
Group project work: Population dynamics
Chapter 6: Metapopulations
September 13, 2016
Exam 1
September 15, 2016
Group project work: Population dynamics
September 20, 2016
Lotka-Volterra competition
No Reading
Lecture slides
September 22, 2016
Group project work: Population dynamics
September 27, 2016
R* theory of competition
Chapter 8: Resource competition
Lecture slides
September 29, 2016
Group project work: Population dynamics
October 4, 2016
Predator-prey dynamics
Chapter 9: Predator-prey dynamics
Lecture slides
October 6, 2016
Group project work: Biodiversity
Chapter 10: Host-parasite interactions
October 11, 2016
Paper discussion: Hare-Lynx interactions
Reading: Krebs et al. (1995)
October 13, 2016
Group project work: Biodiversity
Chapter 12: Indirect interactions
October 18, 2016
Trophic cascades
Chapter 13: Diversity
October 20, 2016
Group project work: Biodiversity
Chapter 14: Island biogeography and species area curves
October 25, 2016
Exam 2
October 27, 2016
Group project work: Biodiversity
Chapter 15: Niche theory
November 1, 2016
Measuring biodiversity
Reading: Zokan & Drake (2015)
November 3, 2016
Group project work: Biodiversity
Reading: Emery (2012)
November 8, 2016
Species-abundance distributions and species-area curves
Chapter 18: Latitudinal diversity gradients
Lecture slides
November 10, 2016
Group project work: Biodiversity
November 15, 2016
Diversity-function-stability relationships
Chapter 19: Diversity and stability
Lecture slides
November 17, 2016
Projects/class topics connections, exam prep.
November 22, 2016
Thanksgiving break
November 24, 2016
Thanksgiving break
November 29, 2016
Group project work: Biodiversity
December 1, 2016
Exam 3
December 13, 2016
Group presentations of project work – 3:30-6:30pm