Info: Due dates for homework will be announced in class when assigned.

Subject

Case study - Human footprint and population isolation in large carnivores (example of t-SNE identifying groups from complex data)

Conservation Biology & Human population growth - a race between N & K.

UN WPP 2019 projections of human population growth

Utilitarian and Transcedentalist philosophies of conservation

Reading

  1. CWP CH 1
  2. Cohen 1995. Population growth and the earth's human carrying capacity. Science 269: 341-346.   Also see Figures 1 & 2 in Nekola et al. 2013 TREE 28:127-130and Tables 1 & 2 in Costanza et al. Nature 387: 253-260. 
  3. ABGR CH 1
  4. ABGR CH 2

R Exercises and Homework

  • A quick tour of RStudio and it's use
  • R: Exercise One: Data file used in Exercise One
  • R: Exercise Two
  • Data set for HW1 from US Census of 2010, as orginally formatted by USCensus Bureau.
  • Same data here as a txt file to read into R more easily.  Right click, use 'save as' to save this file on your desktop or somewhere else you can easily find it.  In RStudio, click the "Import Dataset" tab in the top right panel.  Follow the dialog boxes to read the file into an R object (note that the data are tab delimited).
  • HW 1 due Monday 9/9.   R Exercise Two provides examples that will allow you to do HW 1 using R.