Date

Topic

Readings 
Off Campus Access

Homework

Worksheets

Aug 23

Introduction / Unconstrained Population Growth

Case Ch1, Appendix 1

Complete Worksheet 1

Aug 28

Unconstrained Growth/ Introduction to transformations

Aug 30

Introduction to Maple, eigenvalue/eigenvector analysis

Case p45-54,
Worksheet 2

P 63-64: Prob 2,3  Worksheet 2

intro.mws

Sep 04

Eigenvalue/eigenvector analysis

Sep 06

Eigenvalue/eigenvector analysis

Sep 11

Growth of age-structured populations

Case  p64 -end of chapter

leslie.mws,

Sep 13

Growth of stage-structured populations

p77: Prob 4,5

LesliePlot.mws,

Sep 18

Two-sex models

Case Ch8

eigen.mws

Sep 20

Continuous logistic population growth

Science 269:341-346

cohen.mws growth.mws

Sep 25

Discrete logistic population growth

Science 186: 645-647  AmNat 110:573-599

p135: Prob 6-11

may.mws nonlinear.mws

Sep 27

Discrete logistic continued / stability analysis

Choose Projects on single species dynamics

chaos_demo

Oct 02

Population regulation

Case Ch 6

Oct 04

Evolutionary population models: r- and K-selection

Ecology 52:453-468 Case Chap 9 to p 211
Choose Projects on single species dynamics
links to papers

rKselect.mws

Oct 09

Evolutionary population models

Oct 11

FALL BREAK

Oct 16

Harvesting Models

Case Chap 10

Oct 18

Predator-prey models - behavior

Case Ch 12 to p277

volterra.mws

Oct 23

Predator-prey models – linear stability analysis

 Case Ch 13 to p 301

 linearization.mws localstab.mws

Oct 25

Predator-prey models

  P290: 1,4,5,6,9

Oct 30

Project Presentations

Nov 01

Project Presentations

Projects on multiple species Systems

Links to papers

Nov 06

Host Parasitoid Models

blowflies.mws NBaddendum.mws

Nov 08

Work on projects

Choose Projects on multiple species systems

Nov 13

Competition models - behavior

Case Ch 14

Written Project Reports

competition.mws

Nov 15

Competition models - linear stability analysis

Nov 20

Maple analysis of equilibria, phase plots, linear stability, isocline plots, etc

DE_system.mws

Nov 22

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY

Nov 27

Chemostats, Dimensional analysis

Nov 29

Project Presentations

Dec 04

Project Presentations

Chemostat handout, FinalExam Handed Out

Dec 06

Chemostat models continued

Written Project Reports

Dec 10

FINAL EXAM 2:00 pm  TAKE HOME Due at beginning of exam period