BIOL 4120 Ecology Course Page

Links to lecture notes:	Links to Laboratory Instructions
Lecture 1 Introduction	Introduction to Spreadsheets
Lecture 2 Evolution Introduction	Spreadsheet Graphics
Lecture 3 The Physical Environment	Demography lab
Lecture 4 The Aquatic Environment	Estimating Population Size
Lecture 5 The Terrestrial Environment	Spatial Pattern in the Forest lab
Lecture 6 Plant Adaptations	Functional Response lab
Lecture 7 Animal Adaptations
Lecture 8 Life History	Plant Competition lab
Lecture 9 Population	Mimicry lab
Lecture 10 Population Growth	Ecological Simulation Lab
Lecture 11 Population Regulation
Lecture 12 Metapopulations	Links to available Special Topics
Lecture 13 Competition	Modeling Exponential Population Growth
Lecture 14 Predation and Herbivory	Modeling Density-Dependent Growth
Lecture 15 Symbioses	Diversity Indices
Lecture 16 Communities	Paper/Presentation description
Lecture 17 Succession	Effective Population Size
Lecture 18 Ecosystems	Rarefaction
Lecture 19 Landscape Ecology	Data from Lab 6 on Spatial Patterns
Chapters 21 & 22 notes Ecosystem flows	Data from Lab 7 on Functional Response
Link to Plant Competition Lab Dataset	Introduction to the Examination Format
Peterson Intro To Spreadsheets	Peterson Spreadsheet Graphics
Peterson Functional Response Lab	Spreadsheet Graphics Data