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BIOLOGY 330 Population and Community Ecology Patterns and processes at the population and community levels of organization are fundamental to ecological literacy and understanding. In this course, we will focus on paramount ecological theory -- not natural history. Course content will emphasize conceptual and mathematical models, implementation and exploration of models in excel and R, limitations of ecological models and understanding, and applications of theory in the primary literature. |
Dr. Evan Weiher
For details visit the course D2L site.
353 Phillips
weiher@uwec.edu
week 1: Overview 1: Populations. What are models anyway? Density-independent population growth
week 2: Age-structured population growth
week 3: Density-dependent population growth
week 4: Metapopulations
week 5: Competition
week 6: Predation
week 7: Food webs
week 8: Review, Exam 1
spring break
week 9: Overview 2: Communities. Measuring diversity.
week 10: Island biogeography, diversity partitioning
week 11: Succession, niches, niche partitioning
week 12: Community assembly and neutral theory
week 13: Gradient Analysis
week 14: Hysteresis, metacommunities
week 15: Review, Exam 2