Seminars and weekend field trips. 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. Marine Invertebrate Zoology. Structure, function, and development of invertebrates collected from estuarine and marine habitats. Implications of current research on chromosome and genome organization for evolutionary biology. Theoretical and computational basis of evolutionary biology at the sequence level.