Ecology - Bio 76001 and Bio V9006

An Ecology Course for the Fall of 2017 with DJ Lohman and RF Rockwell

The course will now meet at the Graduate Center in Room 3209

The complete course syllabus and more can be found here

Notifications:
08/23/17 - note the room is now 3209


  

Schedule 
date topic
08/29 Introduction and abundance estimation
09/05 Exponential and geometric growth
09/12 Density-dependent models of continuous and discrete time population growth
09/26 Age and stage structured models - basics, eigen values and vectors, Perron/Frobenius theorem
10/03 Age and stage structured models - adding complexity
10/10

Age and stage structured models - transients, momentum and even more complexity

10/17 Sensitivity and elasticity analyses; prospective and retrospective models
10/24 Patterns of species richness and abundance in communities; ecosystem functioning
10/31 Predator-prey interactions
11/07 Interspecific competition
11/14 Mutualism and facilitation
11/28 Ecological networks and foodwebs
12/05 Phylogenetics and community ecology
12/12 Metapopulations, metacommunities and neutral theory

Contact
DJ Lohman - [email protected]
RF Rockwell - [email protected]

Recommended Papers - download but do not sell ;-)))
Caswell 2000
Cooch et al. 2001
Koons et al. 2005
Koons et al. 2006
Fawcett and Higginson 2012
Flint et al. 2016


last revised 08/31/16