The study of the rise and fall of populations, inter- and intraspecific interactions - with a strong flavor of conservation biology and management.
Course Materials
This course is co-taught by Drs. Elie Gurarie and Joshua Drew. This page compiles the lectures, labs, problem sets and links to simulation tools for Dr. Gurarie’s portion of the course (roughly weeks 5-11). The page will be populated as the course progresses, but a link to previous year’s archives is below.
Lectures
Topic I. Exponential Growth
Topic II. Limits to Growth
Recitation/Labs
Many of our labs will use the R programming language. If you use your own computer, be sure to download these two extremely useful (& extremely free) programs: R and Rstudio.
Problem Sets / Homework
- HW 3: Exponential Growth - Due Thursday, Feb 27
Archives
Archived materials for this class from Spring 2024 can be found here.