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Overview

This site holds lecture and lab materials for Applied Population Dynamics (WILD 5700/7700), a course on population ecology and wildlife conservation at UGA.

Students (primarily undergraduates) are exposed to basic theory in population ecology and to techniques for putting theory into practice. Topics include:

• Population models
  • The BIDE model
  • Exponential and logistic growth
  • Stage-structured matrix models
  • Metapopulation models
• Study design
• Parameter estimation
  • Distance sampling
  • Mark-recapture
  • Occupancy models

More details can be found in the syllabus.

A GitHub repository with the source code is here.

History

This course was originally developed by Mike Conroy and John Carroll. I took over and revised it in the spring of 2014.