SUBJECT
Title
Modelling ecology
Type of instruction
laboratory
Level
master
Faculty
Part of degree program
Credits
2
Recommended in
Semester 1
Typically offered in
Autumn semester
Course description
- Population dynamics, discere density independent and density dependent models. Chaos in population dynamics
- Continuous population dynamics, dynamics of structured populations
- Predator prey models, The phase space analysis of Lotka-Volterra model.
- The Holling II functional response and the limit cycles in predator-prey dynamics
- Models of competition
- Metapopulations
- Modeling of food webs
Readings
- Case T. J. An illustrated guide to theoretical ecology. Oxford Univ. Press. 2000
- Gurney, W. S. C. and Nisbet, R. M. Ecological dynamics. Oxford Univ. Press 1998.