weekly-activities – Principles of Ecology

Week 1

The goal for this week is introduce you to the science of ecology.

Week 2

Starting this week, we will learn about the growth of populations

Week 3

This week we continue to learn how structured population matrices can help in population management.

Week 4

In lecture this week, we will learn how to incorporate biological reality in the form of positive and negative density dependence.

Week 5

In lecture this week, we will turn to the field of community ecology, which investigates the relationships between different species that co-occur in the same habitat.

Week 6

This week, we dive deeper into analyzing the Lotka-Volterra model of competition, a classic model from community ecology that seeks to explain coexistence between species…