Lecture Notes

DATE

LECTURE

Jan 20

Course overview

Jan 22

Population ecology approaches; Density-independent growth

Jan 27

Demographic & environmental stochasticity

Jan 29

Density-dependent growth

Feb 3

Population regulation

Feb 5

Age- and stage-structured models

Feb 10

Age- and stage-structured models

Feb 12

Life tables; Life-history patterns

Feb 17

Land use & Midwest mammals (Dr. Ed Heske)

Feb 19

Exam 1

Feb 24

Spatial structure & Metapopulations

Feb 26

Spatial structure & Metapopulations

Mar 3

Dispersal

Mar 5

Dispersal

Mar 10

Source-sink dynamics

Mar 12

Conservation genetics (Brad Cosentino)

Mar 17

PVA

Mar 19

Competition

Mar 24

SPRING BREAK

Mar 26

SPRING BREAK

Mar 31

Wildlife diseases (Dr. Nohra Mateus-Pinilla)

Apr 2

Invasive species (Dr. Andy Suarez)

Apr 7

Exam 2

Apr 9

Predation

Apr 14

Population harvesting

Apr 16

Population cycles

Apr 21

Mark-recapture estimation

Apr 23

Mark-recapture estimation; Distance sampling

Apr 28

Estimation of dispersal

Apr 30

Focal species approaches

May 13

Final Exam (1:30 - 4:30 pm)