Introduction to Practical Modeling (BIOL 580, Fall 2000) 

Class hours: Wednesday 12:00 - 13:00
Lab hours: Tuesday 17:00 - 19:00 and 11:00 - 13:00

Last Updated: 10 November 2000

This is the homepage for Biology 580, Introduction to Practical Modelling, Fall 2000 (M. Taper). This page will contain lecture notes, examples of programs (MathCad and MATLAB), and any other relevant information to Dr. Taper's lecture.   For any suggestions and questions regarding this homepage, please email Tomo Eguchi.  I will try to post all programs in a downloadable format.  You can either copy and paste programs or download them to your computer directly.

Index:
Course description
Contact information
Additional information
Lecture notes
Programming

Course Description:
 

Contact Information:
Mark Taper: taper@rapid.msu.montana.edu

Andrew Hulting: ahulting@montana.edu
Brett Marshall: brettm@montana.edu
Chris Jerde: jerde@rapid.msu.montana.edu
David Staples: staples@rivers.msu.montana.edu
Doug Williams: williams@wildweb.org
Eric Ward: eward@montana.edu
Jeff Schomburg: JeffSchomburg@aol.com
Ken Aho: kaho@montana.edu
Matt Ferrari: mferrari@mcn.net
Michele Wolf: mfwolf@montana.edu
Nicole Tursich: ntursich@montana.edu
Nicole Wagner: nwagner@montana.edu
Scott Stephens: ses@montana.edu
Tomo Eguchi: eguchi@montana.edu

Additional information:

• Here are some books that are relevant to the class (in a random order):
• Primer of Ecological Theory, J. Roughgarden, Prentice Hall, 1998
• Population Biology, A. Hastings, Springer, 1996
• A Primer of Population Biology, E.O. Wilson and W. H. Bossert, Sinauer Associates, 1971
• Modelling Biological Populations in Space and Time, E. Renshaw, Cambridge University Press, 1991
• Structured-Population Models in Marine, Terrestrial, and Freshwater Systems, S. Tuljapurkar and H. Caswell (eds.), Chapman and Hall, 1996
• Quantitative Analysis of Movement, P. Turchin, Sinauer Associates, 1998
• The Ecological Detective, R. Hilborn and M. Mangel, Princeton University Press, 1997

• Compareing five models (First lab assignment)
I have manipulated the five mathematical models for identifying parameters (a, b, and c).  Although the analytical approach was not required for the assignment, this approach might be useful in setting values for these parameters.  If you are interested in, please take a look.  This document is by no means complete.  Please email me if you find mistakes, or have suggestions and comments (Temporarily withdrawn for maintenance, i.e., fixing mistakes ).
• A chapter of Ted Case's book
• Chapter 4 of Ted Case's book
• Effects of stochasticity on population trajectories.

• Lecture 1 (12 September 2000)
• Lecture 2 (19 September 2000)
• Lecture 3 (20 September 2000)
• Lecture 4 (21 September 2000)
• Lecture 5 (26 September 2000)
• Lecture 6 (27 September 2000)
• Lecture 7 (28 September 2000)
• Lecture 8 (3 October 2000: Compartment models, eigenvalues, and eigenvectors)
• Lecture 9 (4 October 2000)
• Lecture 10 (5 October 2000)
• Additional information on age-structured growth models in a pdf format. This is a summary of lecture notes from Biol 504 (Goodman, Fall 1999). matrixModels.pdf