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    MathBench Population Dynamics Module Activity
    The resource accompanies the Mystery of the Missing Housefly Population Dynamics MathBench module which explores exponential and logistic growth models. Students explore the assumptions of the...
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    Biodiversity Conservation in Agriculture
    Biodiversity is decreasing rapidly each year and agriculture is a large contributor. In order to minimize biodiversity loss, we must study how local and landscape management in agriculture impact...

    Keywords: conservationagricultureBiodiversitybiodiversity conservationagricultural conservation

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    Student and Faculty Tools for Generating High-Quality Phage Annotations
    Phage genome annotation requires collaboration between faculty and their student research team. This set of resources provides tools to assist both students and faculty in the evaluation and...
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    2010-Del-Ciello-EtAl-Modeling Disease
    We model the transmission of a disease through a population. Such modeling is very important to the study of epidemiology and the practice of medicine.

    Keywords: diseasespreadcarriessymptomaticasymptomatic

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    Data from: Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide
    Review important resources for building IPMs and provide a comprehensive guide, with extensive R code, for their construction.

    Keywords: IPMintegral projection modelsdemographyelasticitylife historymatrix projection modelpopulation growth ratepopulation projection modelsensitivitystage structurevital ratesResources @ DryadResources @ QUBES - Data

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    Advancing population ecology with integral projection models: a practical guide
    Integral projection models (IPMs) use information on how an individual's state influences its vital rates – survival, growth and reproduction – to make population projections using regression...

    Keywords: IPMintegral projection modelspopulation growthreviewsdemographyelasticitylife historymatrix projection modelpopulation growth ratesensitivitystage structurevital ratesregressionResources @ QUBES - Teaching & Referencecovariatesanalytics

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    Modeling Strep Throat Detection, Infection, and Spread Using an SIR Model and the Vensim Simulation Software
    The overarching goal of this lesson is to provide students with an opportunity to gain experience making and using biological models. Biological modeling can be used to investigate complex,...

    Keywords: infectious diseasebiological modelingSIR model

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    Human population growth case study
    A case study on human population growth that includes Human-Environment Interactions (HEI) from the Ecological Society of America's 4 dimensional ecology teaching framework. Meant to be used in...

    Keywords: exponential growthlogistic growthhuman-environmental interactions

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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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    Leslie/Lefkovitch Matrix Models for Age or Stage-structured Populations
    This Excel workbook uses the Leslie matrix model for population projection of age-class structured populations, and also allows Lefkovitch matrix models for stage-class structured populations.

    Keywords: survivalpopulation ecologyfecundityLeslie matrixeigenvalueseigenvectorsLefkovitch matrixage-class structured populationsstage-class structured populationsreproductive value

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    1-039-StochasticPopModels-ModelingScenario
    We develop strategies for creating a population model using some simple probabilistic assumptions. These assumptions lead to a system of differential equations for the probability that a system is...

    Keywords: Probabilitypopulation dynamicsVarianceMeanstochasticdeterministic

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    1-066-USCensusModeling-ModelingScenario
    The United States Census, conducted every 10 years, gives data on the United States population, that can be modeled with the exponential, logistic, or Gompertz functions.

    Keywords: datalogisticpopulationGompertzcensusgoodness of fit

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    Connecting Viral Pandemics to Ecological Population Growth Models
    In this activity students use the HHMI Population Growth Models interactive to explore R0 for diseases and discuss the importance of connecting population ecology to current events like the...
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    Exploring Population Change without Selection: Avida-Ed Lab Book Exercise 4
    An introductory activity exploring how a population changes without natural selection using the Avida-ED simulation.

    Keywords: population geneticsEvolutionavida-edsoftware simulationsSelection

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    Population Ecology in Swirl: Estimating Population Sizes
    The students will learn to estimate population sizes and consider assumptions of mathematical models and their applicability to the ecology of an organism/population

    Keywords: RSwirl

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    Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium
    This module introduces the Hardy-Weinberg model in the context of understanding the population's genotype and allele frequencies. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: genotypeallelesGenetics and EvolutionFrequenciesHardy-Weinberg model

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    Predator-Prey Dynamics: the Lotka-Volterra Model
    This module introduces the Lotka-Volterra model in the context of understanding how predator and prey interact. It is intended for an introductory biology audience.

    Keywords: differential equationsecologypredatory-prey modelLotka-Volterrapredator-prey interactions

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    The Mystery of the Missing Martens
    National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science- this interrupted case study introduces basic modeling to investigate a decline in an American marten population on an island in Southeast Alaska.

    Keywords: modelingsurvivaldata analysisvital ratessurvivorshippopulation ecologyage structurefecundityWildlife Biologymodellingmartensbirth ratelife table

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    2017-Rosario-Antony-Mathematical Model for Future Population Scenario In India And China – An Econometric Approach
    A mathematical model including dynamical systems, statistical models and differential equations involves variety abstract structures. Population growth is one of the main issues in India and China...

    Keywords: logisticIndiavital coefficientsAsiaCarrying Vapacitiyannual growth rate

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    2000-Idels-Wang-Harvesting Fisheries Management Strategies With Modified Effort Function
    This study concludes that a control parameter beta (the magnitude of the effect of the fish population size on the fishing effort function E), changes not only the rate at which the population goes...

    Keywords: sustainabilityfishFishingmanagementharvestfisherstrategyoverfishing

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