I just finished teaching the first five weeks of Population Biology 200A. Topics covered included:
- Homogeneous populations
- negative & positive density-dependence
- population persistence & regulation
- multiple attractors, hysteresis, & non-equilibrium dynamics
- Temporal heterogeneity
- environmental & demographic stochasticity
- population viability analysis
- Individual heterogeneity
- Stage-structured matrix models
- Eigenvalues, vectors, & sensitivity analysis
- Stochasticity & Lyapunov exponents
- Spatial heterogeneity
- Metapopulation theory
- Source-sink dynamics
- Ideal-free distributions and "balanced" dispersal