NRES 488/688 LABORATORY SCHEDULE
Week 1 Scientific Processes in Animal Ecology- WNC Ch. 2,3
Week 2 Labor Day Holiday
Week 3
Discussion- Philosophy of Wildlife Science -Romesburg
Week 4 Sampling
precision
Week 5 Lincoln-Petersen
estimates/ Introduction
to Program MARK
Week 6 Closed
Population models / Discussion of peer review
(Jelinek et al. 2000,
Meffe et al. 1998, Hecht and Parkin 2001)
Week 7 Known
fate models/Project work session
Week 8 Analysis of band
recoveries/Project work session
Week 9
Survival estimation
Week 10 Midterm
Exam, No lab: work session
Week 11 Matrix
population models Application
of matrix models:
work session
Week 12 Matrix
population models: work session
Week 13 Work Session
Week
14 Work Session
Week 15 Distance methods
Week 16 Student symposium