FW 680A4
Wildlife Ecology Modeling
(Fall 2024)

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Schedule Course Overview

Readings: Come prepared to discuss the assigned reading on the next class after the readings were assigned.

  • What was interesting and useful? What did not make sense? What did you disagree with? What did you learn? Bring points to highlight and bring questions (make a list). Check each week’s link to see if there are listed reading questions.

Labs: are started in class on the day they are listed under and any relevant lab assignment is due one week later, unless otherwise stated.

Schedule

Week Day Date Lecture Topic Assignments Readings Background Materials
1 Tu 20-Aug Class Intro Discussion Post Zitomer et al. 2022; Wolcott et al. 2019
  Fr 23-Aug Big Picture Lab 1: Sampling Betts et al. 2022; Dumelle et al. 2021; Williams and Brown 2019 Shmueli 2010; Arif and MacNeil 2022
2 Tu 27-Aug Probability Functions Probability Quiz Kery and Kellner Ch. 2.0-2.4 Hobbs and Hooten Ch.3; Bolker Ch. 4
  Fr 30-Aug Probability Functions Lab 2: Simulation & Prob. Functions Kery and Kellner Ch. 2.5-2.6 Fieberg Ch. 10; Bolker Ch. 6
3 Tu 3-Sep Likelihood / Optimization Dushoff et al. 2019; Fieberg, Ch. 1.10 Fieberg Ch. 1; Bolker Ch. 7; Zurr et al. Ch. 2
  Fr 6-Sep Regression Lab 3: Regression
4 Tu 10-Sep GLM I Zurr and Iano, 2016
  Fr 13-Sep GLM II Lab 4: GLM Fieberg, Ch. 8; Tredennick et al. 2021
5 Tu 17-Sep Modeling Strategies Gelman and Hill Ch. 11 and 12
  Fr 20-Sep Hierarchical Models / GLMM Lab 5: GLMM Kery and Kellner Ch. 2.7-2.10
6 Tu 24-Sep Bayesian Inference Ellison 2004 Hobbs and Hooten Ch.5.;Fieberg Ch. 11 & 12
  Fr 27-Sep Bayesian Inference and Computation Lab 6: Bayes;
Bayes Quiz		 Kurz, 2023
7 Tu 1-Oct Hierarchical Bayesian
  Fr 4-Oct Hierarchical Bayesian Lab 7;
Nothing to submit		 Widmer et al 2021; Guillera-Arroita et al. 2015 Soley-Guardia et al. 2024; Valavi et al. 2021
8 Tu 8-Oct Species Distribution Modeling Kery and Schaub Ch 7
  Fr 11-Oct Mark Recapture Lab 8: CJS Royle et al. 2018
9 Tu 15-Oct Spatial Capture Recapture Kery and Schaub Ch 13
  Fr 18-Oct Hierarchical Bayesian Occupancy Lab 9:
HB Occu.		 Zipkin and Saunders 2018; Zipkin et al. 2021; Powell and Gale Ch 18
10 TU 22-Oct N-Mixture and Integrated Data Models McCaffery et al. 2016; Kery and Kellner Ch20
  Fr 25-Oct Integrated Data Models Lab 10: ISDM Wittemyer et al. 2019; Huggler et al. 2022
11 Tu 29-Oct Animal Movement Nathan et al 2008 and 2022; Signer et al 2018; and more
  Fr 1-Nov Animal Movement Lab 11: AMT;
Nothing to submit		 Smith et al. 2022; Northrup et al. 2022
12 Tu 5-Nov Habitat Selection Draft guidance paper
  Fr 8-Nov Habitat Selection Lab 12: HabSel Wright et al 2020
13 Tu 12-Nov Community Modeling
  Fr 15-Nov No Class Lab 13: Community
14 Tu 19-Nov Group Project work
  Fr 22-Nov Group Project work
15 Tu 26-Nov No Class
  Fr 29-Nov No Class
16 Tu 3-Dec Present Group Project
  Fr 6-Dec Present Group Project