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Date
August 27
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Lecture Topic
Scientific processes in animal
ecology
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Required Reading
WNC
Ch. 2,3
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Extra Reading
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August 29
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What is a population and how does
one work? Printable
version
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WNC
Ch.
1
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Smith and Fowler 1981, Caughly Ch. 2 |
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September 3
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Labor Day Holiday |
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September 5
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Probability
distr., variation and sample size
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version |
WNC
Ch.
4
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September 10
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Concepts of uncertainty, accuracy and precision
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WNC
Ch.
4 |
Hilborn and Mangel
Ch.
1
Thompson, White, Gowan
Ch.
1
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| September 12 |
Maximum
likelihood Printable
version |
WNC
pp 46-50 |
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September
17
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Introduction
to capture-recapture, Estimates of population size: Lincoln Petersen
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version |
WNC
Ch.
14.1 |
Krebs pp. 42-49 |
September
19
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Closed population models: behavioral
response and individual heterogeneity
Printable version |
WNC Ch.
14.2 |
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September
24
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Population
size: Open population models
Printable
version |
WNC
Ch.
18.1-18.2
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WNC Ch. 10 |
September
26
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Demography,
capture-recapture
data, fate trees, multinomial models
Printable
version |
WNC
Ch.
17.1 |
Lebreton
et al. 1992 |
October 1
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Known
fate models Printable
version |
WNC
Ch.
15.3-15.6 |
White and Garrott
Ch.
9 |
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October 3 |
Known
fate models Printable
version
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WNC
Ch.
15.3-15.6 |
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October 8
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Parameter
estimation and model fit Printable
version |
WNC Ch. 4.3.3 |
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October 10
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Model
selection Printable
version |
Burnham
and
Anderson
Ch.
1,2 |
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October 15
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Analysis
of band recoveries Printable
version |
WNC
Ch.
16 |
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October 17
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Band recovery analysis examples
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October 22
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Basic
survival models Printable
version |
WNC
Ch.
17.2, 17.6 |
Lebreton
et al. 1992 |
October
24
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Using capture-recapture to estimate
survival rate: an example Printable version |
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October
29
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Measures of population increase
Printable version MIDTERM EXAM |
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October
31
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Matrix
models introduced Printable
version |
WNC
Ch.
8.4
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Caswell
Ch.
2 |
November
5
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Matrices
continued Printable
version |
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Caswell
Ch.
2 |
November
7
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Work Session |
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November 12
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l and
the stable age-distribution Printable
version |
WNC Ch. 8.4.2.1
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Caswell
Ch.
9 |
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November 14
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Elasticity
and sensitivity Printable
version
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WNC Ch. 8.4.2.2 |
Caswell
Ch.
9 |
November
19
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Stochasticity
in vital rates Printable
version |
Case
Ch. 2 |
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November 21
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Stochastic matrix models
Printable version Spreadsheets
1,
2 |
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November
26
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Population
size:
Distance
Methods Printable
version
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WNC Ch. 13 |
Thompson pp. 105-112. |
November 28
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Distance Examples |
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December
3
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Population size:
Distance Methods
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version
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| December 5 |
Review/Work Session |
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December
10
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Review/Work Session
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