Topic |
Reading |
I. Population ecology: the basics
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BM&T: Chapters 1 and 3
G: Chapter 1
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II. Modeling population life history
A. "Birth"
B. Mortality
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BM&T: Chapter 1
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III. Population change and intraspecific interactions
A. Seasonal
effects and short-term fluctuations
B. Exponential growth
1. Continuous and discrete time
models
2. Instantaneous rates
C. Logistic growth
1. Continuous and discrete time
models
2. Time lags and chaos
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BM&T: Chapters 2 and 3
G: Chapters 1 and 2
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IV. Age/Stage Structured Populations
A.
Age structure and life tables
B. Population projection matrices
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BM&T: Chapter 3
G: Chapter 3
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V. Interspecific competition
A. Volterra-Gause models
B. Animals
C. Plants
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BM&T: Chapter 4
G: Chapter 5
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VI. Predation
A. Lotka-Volterra oscillations
B. Functional response
C. Animals, plants, hosts, parasites, etc.
D. Exploitation
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BM&T: Chapter 5
G: Chapter 6
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VII. Population regulation
A. Equilibrium, stability, and resilience
B. Density independence
and density dependence
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BM&T: Chapter 6
G: Chapter 4
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VIII. Metapopulation dynamics
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BM&T: Chapter 7
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