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    Island Biogeography
    This Excel workbook demonstrates the principles of the MacArthur-Wilson theory of Island Biogeography. It allows the user to define the mainland species pool, area of the island, and distance of...

    Keywords: Logarithmsspecies richnessIsland biogeographyExponential FunctionsMacArthur-Wilson Theorypower functions

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    Two-Species Model
    These two Excel worksheets simulate the population growth of two interacting species. In isolation, each species grows logistically, but interaction effects between species may limit or enhance...

    Keywords: population growthcompetition modelsLotka-Volterra

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    Phylogeography Simulator
    This Excel workbook simulates the phylogeography of an asexually reproducing species.

    Keywords: Phylogeographymutation ratesAsexual reproductionspecies dispersal

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    In silico chromosome mapping: Idiograms
    This workbook allows the user to construct idiograms (haploid or diploid), map sequences onto them, depict chromosome structural mutations, and perform side-by-side comparative analyses of...

    Keywords: InheritancemutationschromosomesidiogramDrosophila melanogaster

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    Mark-Recapture
    A common method used to estimate the population size of a species is the Mark-Recapture method.

    Keywords: mark-recapture analysispopulation estimation

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    GeoPhyl
    This Excel workbook allows students to explore evolution over space and time using published data on the invasive plant Tamarix (salt cedar).

    Keywords: Invasive SpeciesTamarixsalt cedarpermutation testrandom geographic distribution

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    Developmental Allometry: Scaling in Growth
    This Excel workbook illustrates a number of allometric equations in animal growth. The workbook also calculates an allometric equation with graphical output for data entered by the user.

    Keywords: allometrybrain developmentSkeletal Systemmetabolic rate

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