Andrew D. Taylor, Department of Zoology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

   

Population Biology (Zool/Bot 652) course materials

 

course evaluation form

 

   

lecture

homework

discussion readings

Apr

 

13

predator-prey & parasitoid-host I:
  pp. 218-231 of Barlow & Wratten
  lecture notes on basic models
  notes on stability analysis

   
 

15

predator-prey & parasitoid-host, continued
  

Ch 13, #4
  (explain the partial answer and complete the answers)

none

 

20

p-p & p-h continued: refuges

  Nicholson-Bailey simulations, with refuges (Excel spreadsheet)

Ch 13, #2

 
 

22

 

 

Murdoch et al. 2005

  supplement

  prior papers

 

27

metapopulations - single species
  notes

   
 

29

metapopulations - competition & predation
  notes

assignment (pdf)

Fleishman et al. 2002

May

4, 6

review of the course, by students

         

Feb

23

life history I: chapter 7
  notes (pdf)
  examples (Excel)

 

 

 

25

 

ch. 7, ## 4*, 5, 9

  *pop'n 1=A, 2=B

Bezemer & Mills 2003

VanderWerf 1992
  (skim)

Mar

 

 

 

 

 

2

life history II: chapter 8
  notes (pdf)

ch. 7, ## 6, 10

 

4

 

ch. 8, ## 2, 3

Reznick & Endler 1982

9

population genetics I:
pp. 197-203
  notes (pdf)

  selection example spreadsheet

 

 

11

population genetics II: not in text
  notes (pdf)

pop gen HW I

Grant 1999

Reznick et al. 1997

16

pop gen II continued

  drift example spreadsheet

 

18

density dependent selection: pp. 203-211
  density-dependent selection spreadsheet

pop gen HW II

due 30 March:
  ch. 9, #3

Hauser et al. 2002

other readings:

lecture notes on models of infectious disease dynamics

Turchin, P. & I. Hanski. 1997. "An empirically based model for latitudinal gradient in vole population dynamics." American Naturalist 149(5): 842-874.  [predator-prey cycles]

Turchin, P. & A. D. Taylor. 1992. "Complex dynamics in ecological time series." Ecology 73(1): 289-305.   [related to chapters 5 & 6]

Reznick, D., M. J. Bryant, & F. Bashey. 2002. "r- and K-selection revisited: the role of population regulation in life-history evolution." Ecology 83(6): 1509-1520.   [related to chapter 8 and the other Reznick readings]

 
last revised February 2009