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| Week | Dates | Topic | Readings | Due | X |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | 1/22/2024 | LECTURE: Course overview; Intro to Systems Thinking | |||
| 1/24/2024 | LECTURE: Intro to Population Ecology; Exponential growth | Gotelli Chapter 1 | |||
| 1/26/2024 | LAB 1: Introduction to population modeling in Excel, InsightMaker, and R | ||||
| Week 2 | 1/29/2024 | LECTURE: Intro to Population Ecology; Exponential growth | |||
| 1/31/2024 | LECTURE: Malthus and exponential growth | Gotelli Chapter 2 | |||
| 2/2/2024 | LAB 1 (cont’d) | ||||
| Week 3 | 2/5/2024 | LECTURE: Density-dependent population growth | Gotelli Chapter 2 | Instructor away | |
| 2/7/2024 | LECTURE: Density-dependent population growth | Instructor away | |||
| 2/9/2024 | LAB 2: Density-dependent populations in InsightMaker; MSY | Lab 1 | |||
| Week 4 | 2/12/2024 | LECTURE: Passenger pigeon/Allee Effect | Gotelli Chapter 3 | ||
| 2/14/2024 | LECTURE: Age-structured populations | Gotelli Chapter 3 | |||
| 2/16/2024 | LAB 3: Age-structured populations in Excel and InsightMaker | Lab 2 | |||
| Week 5 | 2/19/2024 | President’s Day (no class) | |||
| 2/21/2024 | LECTURE: Age-structured populations | Gotelli Chapter 3 | |||
| 2/23/2024 | LAB 4: Matrix population models in R and InsightMaker | Lab 3 | |||
| Week 6 | 2/26/2024 | LECTURE: Matrix population models | Heppell 1998 (Optional) | ||
| 2/28/2024 | LECTURE: Matrix population models | Get in project groups | |||
| 3/1/2024 | Work in final project groups: PVA proposals | ||||
| Week 7 | 3/4/2024 | LECTURE: Matrix population models | |||
| 3/6/2024 | LECTURE: Stochasticity and uncertainty | Regan 2002 (Optional) | |||
| 3/8/2024 | LAB 5: Stochasticity and uncertainty | PVA proposals, Lab 4 | |||
| Week 8 | 3/11/2024 | Review for Midterm #1 | |||
| 3/13/2024 | MIDTERM #1 | ||||
| 3/15/2024 | PVA projects: group meetings (or make alternate arrangements for a group meeting time) | ||||
| Week 9 | 3/18/2024 | LECTURE: Stochasticity and uncertainty | |||
| 3/20/2024 | LECTURE: Small population paradigm | Caughley 1994 | |||
| 3/22/2024 | Work on PVA projects (PVA models due Apr 10) | Lab 5 | |||
| Week 10 | 3/25/2024 | Spring Break (no class) | |||
| 3/27/2024 | Spring Break (no class) | ||||
| 3/29/2024 | Spring Break (no class) | ||||
| Week 11 | 4/1/2024 | LECTURE: Declining population paradigm | Caughley 1994 | ||
| 4/3/2024 | LECTURE: Metapopulations | Gotelli Chapter 4 | |||
| 4/5/2024 | LAB 6: Metapopulation modeling in InsightMaker | ||||
| Week 12 | 4/8/2024 | LECTURE: Metapopulations | Gotelli Chapter 4 | ||
| 4/10/2024 | LECTURE: Source-sink dynamics | Griffin et al | PVA models due | ||
| 4/12/2024 | PVA projects: group meetings (working model and description) | ||||
| Week 13 | 4/15/2024 | Review for Midterm #2 | |||
| 4/17/2024 | MIDTERM #2 | ||||
| 4/19/2024 | LAB 7 (optional-no assignment): Parameter estimation: mark-recapture data | ||||
| Week 14 | 4/22/2024 | LECTURE: Species interactions: competition | Gotelli Chapter 5 | Complete PVA drafts | |
| 4/24/2024 | LECTURE: Species interactions: competition | Gotelli Chapter 5 | |||
| 4/26/2024 | LAB: Final Project Peer Review (submit peer review) | Lab 6 | |||
| Week 15 | 4/29/2024 | LECTURE: Species interactions: predator-prey | Gotelli Chapter 6 | ||
| 5/1/2024 | LECTURE: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS | ||||
| 5/3/2024 | LAB: STUDENT PRESENTATIONS | ||||
| Week 16 | 5/6/2024 | LECTURE: Parameter estimation | |||
| 5/8/2024 | NO CLASS: Prep Day | ||||
| Week 17 | 5/13/2024 | FINAL EXAM (10:15am to 12:15pm) | |||
| 5/15/2024 | FINAL PAPERS DUE | Final PVA write-up, Extra credit assignments |