| Course Instructor: | Dr. Adrien Finzi |
| Module Instructor: | Mark Kramer (mak --AT-- bu.edu, 3-1493) |
| Module Hours: | 1-2 PM / Fridays /
111 Cummington / Room 241 |
| Office Hours: | 2-3 PM / Fridays / 111 Cummington / Room 239 |
| Textbook: | The Economy of Nature, 5th Edition, R. E. Ricklefs |
Module goal: To develop in
greater details the quantitative material discussed in lecture.
We will introduce mathematical and computational techniques and apply
these techniques to problems in ecology. You will learn why
mathematics is useful to ecology and how to apply mathematical
techniques to ecological problems.
| Week 1 | Poisson
Distributions |
Matlab Example (mites.m) Matlab on ACS |
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| Week 2 |
Poisson Distributions
& Chi-square test. Introduction to Logistic Growth |
The Integrator Mathematica on ACS |
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| Week 3 |
Life Tables |
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| Week 4 |
Exam review (1) |
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| Week 5 |
Discrete Population
Models (1) Introduction to: cobwebbing. |
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| Week 6 |
Discrete Population
Models (2) Introduction to: fixed points and stability. Application to: the human population. |
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| Week 7 |
Continuous Population
Models (1) Barnacles and boats. |
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| Week 8 | Exam review (2) & Continuous Population Models (2) |
| Week 9 |
Climate change |
Week 10 |
Lion populations |
Week 11 |
The impact of marine
reserve establishment on coral reefs (1) |
Week 12 |
The impact of marine
reserve establishment on coral reefs (2) |
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