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- | ====Read More ==== | + | ====== Single species - additional resources ====== |
- | Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories, by Ginzburg & Jensen | + | ===== Handouts ===== |
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+ | ===== Sites ===== | ||
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+ | * NIMBioS: National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis [[http:// | ||
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+ | ===== Read More ===== | ||
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+ | * Rules of thumb for judging ecological theories, by Ginzburg & Jensen: [[http:// | ||
+ | * The ecological literature, an idea-free distribution, | ||
+ | * My career in Mathematical Biology Profiles from the SMB Newsletter: [[http:// | ||
+ | * Mathematics Is Biology' | ||
+ | * Modeling Population Dynamics, lecture notes by Andre de Ross: [[http:// | ||
+ | * Single-species models for many-species food webs: [[http:// | ||
+ | ==== History and epistemology ==== | ||
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+ | * Population dynamics from first principles. Chapter 2 from [[http:// | ||
+ | * [[http:// | ||
+ | ==== Second-order ODEs==== | ||
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+ | Differential equations used to described population dynamics are in general of first order. In the book [[http:// | ||
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+ | ==== Counting individuals ==== | ||
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+ | Classical models of population dynamics assumes that the size of populations at different times are measurable. Two important issues here are: | ||
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+ | ==What is an individual? | ||
+ | As odd as it may sound, this is a difficult question for a huge proportion of organisms. Therefore defining birth and death is far from trivial. The two best known cases, not mutually exclusive are: | ||
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+ | * Modular organisms, like corals and plants: [[http:// | ||
+ | * Clonal organisms, like bacteria and protozoa: [[http:// | ||
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+ | ==What is the size a population? | ||
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+ | In general we do not know the exact size of populations in field or even in lab conditions. The same is true for other demographic parameters, like survival or fecundity. So we have to rely on // | ||
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