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Thurs Sept 10: Syllabus
1.1
Instructor Information
1.2
Course Information
1.3
Method of Evaluation
1.4
Additional Policies
1.4.1
Accommodation of students with disabilities
1.4.2
Academic misconduct
1.4.3
Equity and Diversity
1.5
Additional Supports
1.6
Tentative course schedule
1.7
Handing in your work
1.7.1
Making figures to hand-in
1.7.2
Writing R scripts to hand-in
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Friday Sept 11: What is a population?
2.1
Questions
2.2
Resources
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Tues Sept 15: Exponential growth - discrete time
3.1
Required reading
3.2
Questions
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Thurs Sept 17: Getting started with R
4.1
Required reading
4.2
Questions
4.3
Just for fun
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Fri Sept 18: Protection Island 1
5.1
Questions
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Tues Sept 22: Protection Island 2
6.1
Questions
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Thurs Sept 24: Protection Island 3
7.1
Questions
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Fri Sept 25: Exponential growth (continuous time)
8.1
Required reading
8.2
Discrete or continuous time formulations
8.3
Questions
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Tues Sept 29: Doubling time
9.1
Questions
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Thurs Oct 1: Density dependence and logistic growth
10.1
Required reading
10.2
Questions
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Tues Oct 6: Solving the logistic growth equation using a computer 1
11.1
What is an ordinary differential equation?
11.2
Numerically integrating an ordinary differential equation in R
11.3
Writing custom functions
11.4
Questions
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Thurs Oct 8: Solving the logistic growth equation using a computer 2
12.1
Writing the func argument for ode()
12.2
Questions
13
Fri Oct 9 and Thurs Oct 15: Data and the logistic equation
13.1
Questions
13.2
The data
13.3
The intrinsic growth rate
13.4
References
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Tues Oct 20: Density-yield and the discrete time density dependence
14.1
Required reading
14.2
Questions
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Thurs Oct 22: Introduction to age-structured population dynamics
15.1
Required Reading
15.2
Questions
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Fri Oct 23: Stage-structured population dynamics
16.1
Required Reading
16.2
Questions
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Tues Oct 27: Data for stage-structured population dynamics
17.1
Questions
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Thurs Oct 29-Tues Nov 3: Midterm
18.1
Chapter 1 in Vandermeer and Goldberg
18.2
Chapter 6 in Sherratt and Wikinson
18.3
p30-36 in Vandermeer and Goldberg
18.4
Kendall et al. 2019
18.5
Numerical solutions of an ordinary differential equation.
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Thurs Nov 5: Evolutionary ecology
19.1
Questions
19.2
Some relevant textbooks
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Fri Nov 6: Evolutionary ecology
20.1
Required reading
20.2
Questions
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Tues Nov 10: The evolution of reproduction effort in plants
21.1
Required reading
21.2
Objectives
21.3
The population dynamics
21.4
Questions
21.5
The evolutionary dynamics
21.6
Questions
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Final project ideas
22.1
Option 1: Review paper
22.2
Option 2: Analysis
22.3
How to read scientific papers
22.4
Grading Rubric: Both Review and Analysis [55 marks]
22.4.1
Grading Rubric: Review only [55 marks]
22.4.2
Grading Rubric: Analysis only [55 marks]
References
References