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Jay Rotella
Department of Ecology
308 Lewis Hall
Montana State University
Bozeman, MT 59717-3460

Tel: (406) 994-5676
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Location: 308 Lewis

> Department of Ecology
WILD 501 - Applied Vertebrate Population Dynamics
Spring 2012

Lab Assignments

Lab 1 - exercises for learning R & introduction to population dynamics work in R
Lab 2 - stochastic exponential growth
Lab 3 - introduction to age-structured population growth
Lab 4 - analysis of deterministic leslie matrix
Lab 5 - stochastic age-structured population growth
Lab 6 - introduction to density-dependent population growth
Lab 7density-dependent population growth – part II
Lab 8 - reproductive value
Lab 9 - harvest theory
Lab 10 - Introduction to metapopulations
Lab 11 - Spatial matrix population models
Lab 12 - population viability analysis

Final Discussion
- Applied population monitoring strategies
  • Surveillance monitoring vs. management-based monitoring
  • Nichols, J. D., and B. K. Williams. 2006. Monitoring for conservation. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 21:668-673.


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