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DATE |
|
LECTURE TOPIC |
|
Jan 20 |
|
Exponential growth |
|
Jan 25 |
|
Logistic growth |
|
Jan 27 |
|
Group discussion |
|
Feb 1 |
|
Age-structured population
growth - life tables |
|
Feb 3 |
|
Population projection
matrices - I |
|
Feb 8 |
|
MARDI GRAS |
|
Feb 10 |
|
Population projection
matrices - II |
|
Feb15 |
|
Group discussion |
|
Feb 17 |
|
Life history evolution |
|
Feb 22 |
|
Group discussion |
|
Feb 24 |
|
Population regulation |
|
Mar 1 |
|
Group discussion |
|
Mar 3 |
|
Time series analysis -
diagnoses and models |
|
Mar 8 |
|
Time series analyses -
chaos and experiments |
|
Mar 10 |
|
Group discussion and Midterm exam |
|
Mar 15 |
|
Diffusion and spatial
spread |
|
Mar 17 |
|
Group discussion |
|
Mar 22 |
|
SPRING BREAK |
|
Mar 24 |
|
SPRING BREAK |
|
Mar 29 |
|
Quantifying spatial
distributions |
|
Mar 31 |
|
Group discussion |
|
Apr 5 |
|
Dynamics of subdivided
populations |
|
Apr 7 |
|
Group discussion |
|
Apr 12 |
|
Population viability and extinction |
|
Apr 14 |
|
Group discussion |
|
Apr 19 |
|
Landscape ecology |
|
Apr 21 |
|
Lecture continued
& Group discussion |
|
Apr 26 |
|
Optimal habitat
use/foraging theory |
|
Apr 28 |
|
Lecture continued
& Group discussion |
|
May 3 |
|
Kin and group selection |
|
May 5 |
|
Group discussion |
|
May 11 |
|
Take-home final due (10
am) |