BIOL 570 - Models in Ecology

Course Career Graduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 0-3S-1
Fee index 6
Faculty Science
Department Biological Sciences
Typically Offered second term

Description
Formulation, analysis, parameterization, and validation of quantitative models for ecological processes. Applications include population dynamics, species interactions, movement, and spatial processes. Approaches include classical hypothesis testing, computer simulation, differential equations, individual-based models, least squares, likelihood, matrix equations, Markov processes, multiple working hypotheses, and stochastic processes. The lab covers computer simulation methods. Prerequisite: consent of Instructor. Offered in alternate years.