Quantitative Conservation Biology – Presentations

Topic

Introduction

pdf Reading 1

QCB1

The Causes and Cuantification of Population viability

pdf Reading 2

fire

Count based PVA: Density independent models

pdf Reading 3

extinction

Count based PVA: Density dependent models

matlab logo chaos program
theta

Accounting for observation error

pdf Hypericum paper

error

Building demographic PVAs

pdf Reading 5

stages
Exam I Daphnia
Sandpiper data
pdf Silvertown, Franco and Menges 1996
sandpiper

Calathea ovandensis data

pdf Horvitz and Schemske

Calathea

Golden heather

icon data Tuljapurkar’s approximation

Golden heather

Exam II

icon data data

HYPE

Demographic PVAs based on vital rates

pdf Doak et al 1994

Tortoise
Demographic PVAs based on vital rates (density dependence) linx

Sensitivity analysis

pdf Mills et al 1999

pdf Slivertown et al 1996

chile

Population dynamics across multiple sites:

Dispersal and environmental correlation

shark
Viability in Spatially Structured Populations Cactus

Criticisms and Caveats

pdf Ellner et al 2002

pdf McCarthy and Broome 2000

pdf Brook et al 2000

pdfCoulson et al 2001