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