†Readings and assignments are from the text Population ecology: from first principles, 2nd ed., 2013, by Vandermeer and Goldberg, unless otherwise specified
| Week | M Date | Meeting | Topic | Reading | Slides | PSets | Remodeling | Misc. |
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| 01 | Feb 03 | Disc | R: Introduction to Population Modeling and modeling in general | |||||
| Lab | Introduction to the R language and RStudio server GUI | IntroToR | ||||||
| 02 | Feb 10 | Disc | Density-independent population growth | Botsford et al. ch. 1 (focus less on §2 & 3 but still read); V&G pp. 1–8 | Simple population models | PSet01, key | Quiz01, Notes: rates of change & units | |
| Lab | Remodeling project introduction, numerical solutions in R | Numerical solutions in R | LitSearch | |||||
| 03 | Feb 17 | Disc | Density-dependent population growth | Remainder of V&G ch. 1, pp. 9–29 | PSet02, key | Quiz02, Logistic units and resources | ||
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| 04 | Feb 24 | Disc | Dynamics | V&G pp. 81–94 (stop at 2D) | ||||
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| 05 | Mar 03 | Disc | ||||||
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| 06 | Mar 10 | Disc | ||||||
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| 07 | Mar 17 | Disc | ||||||
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| Mar 24 | Spring recess | |||||||
| 08 | Mar 31 | Disc | ||||||
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| 09 | Apr 07 | Disc | ||||||
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| 10 | Apr 14 | Disc | ||||||
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| 11 | Apr 21 | Disc | ||||||
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| 12 | Apr 28 | Disc | ||||||
| Lab | CLAS: lab on F | |||||||
| 13 | May 05 | Disc | ||||||
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| Exam | May 12 | Remodeling paper due |