2005 ELME courses at Kellogg Biological Station

Week 1 (MTH 490.431) taught by Robin E. Snyder

• Course outline
• Readings from Gurney and Nisbet (1998) for:
  • Day 1: sections 1.4, 1.5, 2.2.1(second half), 5.2.2, 2.5.1, 2.5.2
  • Day 2: sections 1.3.2, 2.3, 2.4, 5.2.1, 5.4.3 (case study), 3.3.1, 3.3.2
  • Day 3: sections 2.5.3, 2.5.4, 3.2, 6.2.1, 6.2.2
  • Day 4: sections 3.1, 4.2.1, 6.2.3, 6.4.1 (case study)
  • Day 5: Chapter 8 from Bulmer, M. 1994. Theoretical evolutionary ecology.
• Lab 1: Equilibria and stability in single-species, continuous-time models
• Lab 2: Equilibria and stability in single-species, discrete-time models
• Lab 3: Equilibria and stability in continous-time predator-prey models
• Lab 4: Type II functional response (a.k.a. the Pistachio Lab)
• Lab 5: Game theory
• Mathematica Notebooks:
  • Exponential Growth
  • Logistic Growth
  • Ricker
  • Ricker Full
  • Lotka-Voterra Predator-prey
  • Rosenzweig

Week 2 (MTH 490.432) taught by Brian D. Inouye

• Course outline
• Day 1:
  • Chamberlin 1890
  • Platt 1964
  • Dayton 1973
  • Greene 2005
• Day 2:
  • Simulation Template in Mathematica
  • Simulation Template in Excel

Week 3 (MTH 490.433) taught by Chad E. Brassil

• Course outline
  Pages listed below are from Hilborn and Mangel (1997)
• Day 1: pgs 39-57, 62-87
  • Lab: Distribution Notebook. pgs 94-95, 98-103
• Day 2: pgs 59-62, 131-160
  • Lab: Dying Flies Notebook
  • Maximimum Likelihood Analysis in Excel
• Day 3: pgs 160-171 and Hebblewhite (2005)
  • Fly analysis in R
    • Fly Data
    • R Code
  • Morning Lab: Hebblewhite Data
  • Afternoon Lab: Generalized Maximum Likelihood Notebook with Chapter 8 (pgs 180-202)
• Day 4: pgs 106-117, 171-179
  • Chapter 8 Solution
  • ANOVA Design
• Resources for Projects
  • Global Population Dynamics Database
  • KBS LTER Data
  • Climate Indices
• BONUS: Simplified MLE Tools Notebook

Week 4-7 (ZOL/PLB 440): Advanced Field Ecology and Evolution

• Syllabus
• Statistics Primer
  • Introduction to Statistics
  • Introduction to SYSTAT
• Wed, July 6: Papers to discuss
  • Hanley and Goulson (2003)
  • Memmott and Waser (2002)
  • Conner and Ferguson
• Fri, July 8: Pollen Data from Class Project
• Mon, July 11: Presentation on Preliminary Pollination Data
  • Presentation 1
  • Presentation 2
  • Presentation 3
• Mon, July 11: Papers to discuss
  • Cotton et al. (2004)
  • Lewis (2001)
  • Rundle et al. (2001)
• Mon, July 11: Snail species collected by class
• Fri, July 15: Pond and Lake data collected by class
• Mon, July 25: Grant Proposal Example from 2004

General Resources

• Notebooks for Mathematica:
  • Math Magic: math cheat sheet
  • Mathematica Basics
  • General Differential Equation Solver. Note, to use the null clines, you must download DiffEqs, unzip it, and place the folder at "C:\Program Files\Wolfram Research\Mathematica\5.0\AddOns\Applications".
• Electronic Journals in Ecology and Evolution at KBS
• MathReader is a free download that can be used to view Mathematica notebooks (*.nb).