Population Ecology
Lecturer: Chih-Shin Chen (陳志炘)
Email: cschen@mail.ntou.edu.tw
Phone: 02-2462 2192 #5607
Webpage: imarm.ntou.edu.tw/p/412-1054-7751.php?Lang=zh-tw
Course ID: D31011ZH
Credits: 3
Course Prerequisites: None
Course Description and Goals:
This course is designed to introduce quantitative population dynamics. Students will learn the most common mathematical models in population and community ecology. Each chapter follows the structured format: model presentation and predictions, model assumptions, model variations, empirical examples, and problems.
Schedule Type: Teaching and/or paper reading
Course Schedule (subject to change):
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Elementary Populations Dynamics (1)
Week 3: Elementary Populations Dynamics (1)
Week 4: Exponential Population Growth (1)
Week 5: Exponential Population Growth (2)
Week 6: Logistic Population Growth (1)
Week 7: Logistic Population Growth (2)
Week 8: Age-Structured Population Growth (1)
Week 9: Age-Structured Population Growth (2)
Week 10: Metapopulation Dynamics (1)
Week 11: Metapopulation Dynamics (2)
Week 12: Competition (1)
Week 13: Competition (2)
Week 14: Predation
Week 15: Island Biogeography
Week 16: Succession