Ecological Theory and Data. Goals and contributions of ecological theory. Formulation of models and applications to data. Topics include demography, population growth, community interactions, food webs, metapopulations, disturbance, structure, stochasticity, chaos, and patchiness. Model development, analysis, and interpretation.
Discussions focus on classical and current primary literature.
Analysis of data using SPlus, making use of likelihood models, bootstrapping, and Bayesian approaches.