1
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
2
Schedule
3
Jan 5: Introduction
3.1
Some questions
3.2
References
4
Jan 6: Discrete and continous variables
5
Jan 12:
ASSIGNMENT
Rmarkdown and tidyverse
6
Jan 13: Geometric growth
6.1
Reading
7
Jan 17: Geometric growth
7.1
Reading
7.2
Questions
8
Jan 19:
ASSIGNMENT
Estimating the geometric growth rate
8.1
Code
8.1.1
Loading and plotting the data
8.1.2
Function for geometric growth
8.1.3
Fitting lambda
8.1.4
Plotting the fit
8.2
To hand in
9
Jan 20: Exponential growth
9.1
Required reading
9.2
Discrete or continuous time formulations
9.3
Questions
10
Jan 24: Density dependent growth
10.1
Required reading
10.2
Questions
11
Jan 26: Density dependence
12
Jan 27: Density dependence (discrete time)
12.1
Required reading
12.2
Questions
13
Feb 16: Stage structure
13.1
Required Reading
13.2
Questions
14
Feb 17:
ASSIGNMENT
Stage-structured population dynamics
15
Feb 28: Stage-structured population dynamics
15.1
Required Reading
15.2
Questions
16
Mar 2: Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
16.1
Required Reading
16.2
Questions
17
Mar 3: Sensitivity, parameterization, and density-dependence and stage-structured population dynamics
17.1
Required reading
17.2
Reference that will be covered in class
18
Mar 7: Metapopulation models
18.1
Required Reading
19
Mar 9: Continuous space models
20
Mar 10 & 14: Epidemiology
20.1
Required reading
21
Mar 21 What is evolutionary ecology?
21.1
Required reading
22
Mar 23 Haploid selection model
22.1
Required reading
23
Mar 24
ASSIGNMENT
Selection for COVID-19 variants
24
Mar 28 & 30 Evolutionary ecology of pathogens
25
Mar 31 Evolution of virulence for SARS-CoV-2
Relevant readings
26
Schedule - prior to strike - outdated
BIOL 3295: Population and Evolutionary Ecology, Winter 2023
19
Mar 9: Continuous space models
The slides for this lecture are on the BrightSpace