January 13, 2025.   Introduction  |   Slides

January 15, 2025.   Announcements Video

Video 1 Slides Data Types and Simple Probability

Video 2 Slides Random Variates & Probability Distributions

Video 3 Slides Measures of Central Tendency

Readings:   Krebs Chapter 1 p 1-17

January 22, 2025.   Announcements Video

Video 1 Slides Precision, Accuracy, Bias

Video 2 Slides Expected Value

Video 3 Slides Estimators

Video 4 Slides Means & Variances in R

Readings:  

January 27, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1 Slides Simple Random Sampling

Video 2 Slides Uncertainty

Readings:  Morrison 137-146, Kufeld et al 1980, Barnett 1974

Jan 29, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1 Slides Reasons to Stratify

Video 2 Slides Apportioning Samples to Strata

Video 3 Slides Apportioning Samples Example

Video 4             Stratified Sampling Estimators

All Slides

Readings: Morrison 146-148;  Kufeld et al. 1980

February 3, 2025. 

Video 1 Slides Systematic Sampling 1

Video 2 Slides Systematic Sampling 2

Video 3 Slides Cluster & Hierarchical Sampling

Video 4 Slides Sampling with replacement

All Slides

Readings:  Krebs Chapter 8, DeBarba et al. 2010

February 5, 2025. 

Video 1 Slides Effect Size

Video 2 Slides Determining Sample Size

Video 3 Slides Confidence Intervals

Video_4 Slides Confidence Intervals vs SE

Readings:  Krebs Chapter 7  pages 277-292 and 310-320

February 10, 2025.  Announcements Video

QUIZ

Video 1 Slides Uncertainty and Sample Size

Video 2 Slides Intro to Hypothesis Testing 

Video 3 Slides Hypothesis testing: Comparing two populations

All Slides

Readings:

February 12, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1 Slides Covariance

Video 2 Slides Covariance: Example

Video 3 Slides Correlation

Video 4 Slides Quadrats

Video 5 Slides Count Data

Video 6 Slides Aerial Surveys

Readings:  Krebs Chapter 4: 137-160

February 17, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1 Slides Population Indecies

Video 2 Slides Detection 

Video 3 Slides Indecies: Butterfly Checklists

Readings:  Johnson 2008

Feb 19, 2025.

Video 1 Slides Intro to Transects

Video 2 Slides Transect Design 

Video 3 Slides Hayne Estimator

Video 4 Slides Transects: Detection & Distance

Readings:    Krebs Chapter 5: 199-212

Feb 24, 2025.

Feb 26, 2025. 

Video 1                    Slides                Detection Functions

Video 2                    Slides                Discovery Curves and Double Sampling

Video 3                    Slides                Double Observer and "Removal" Methods

Readings:    McCallum 2005

March 5, 2025. 

Video 1 Slides Permutation Tests 1

Video 2 Slides Permutation Tests 2

Video 3 Slides t-tests

Video 4 Slides Intro to Anova

Readings:  Gotelli & Ellison Chapter 9: 239-250

March 3, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1 Slides Anova Example 

Video 2 Slides Intro to Regression 

Video 3 Slides Regression: Parameter Uncertainty

Readings:

March 17, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1                    Slides                Intro to Mark-Recapture

Video 2                    Slides                Lincoln-Petersen Method

Video 3                    Slides                Schnable Method

Video 4                    Slides                Jolly-Seber Method

Video 5                    Slides                Change-in-Ratio Methods

Readings:  Keech et al. 2011, Morrison p175-184

March 19, 2025.  Announcements Video

Instructions - You will provided a design scenario in class. 

This is an in-class activity.  

March 24, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1                    Slides                Vegetation Survey Methods 1

Video 2                    Slides                Vegetation Survey Methods 2

Video 3                    Slides                Remote Sensing for Vegetation

Readings: 

March 26, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1                    Slides                Sampling Behavior

Video 2                    Slides                Sampling Behavior: Designs

Video 3                    Slides                Sampling Behavior: Examples

Readings:  Altmann 1974, Vigallon 2005, Robinette 2001, Balda 1989

March 31, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1                    Slides                Experiments 1

Video 2                    Slides                Experiments 2

Video 3                    Slides                Pseudoreplication

Readings: Krebs Chapter 10, Hurlbert 1984

April 2 & 7, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1                    Slides                Uncontrolled Quasi-Experiments

Video 2                    Slides                Controlled Quasi-Experiments and Impact Assessment

Readings: Krebs Chapter 11 pp 459-482

April 9, 2025.

QUIZ 2

April 14, 2025 - Midterm

April 16, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1                    Slides                All Slides

Video 2                   

Readings: 

April 21, 2025. 

Video 1                    Slides                Time Series

Video 2                    Slides                Environmental Economics

Readings: Clark 1982, Nichols and Williams 2006

April 23, 2025.  Announcements Video

Video 1                    Slides                Data Management - Whole lecture

Readings: