Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Spreadsheet and R Project

Conservation Biology and Modeling Course

The care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing opportunity. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope. — Wendell Berry

Welcome to Conservation Biology and Modeling. This course is co-taught by Jed Murdoch (University of Vermont) and Therese Donovan (Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit), and features lectures and modeling exercises focused on foundations of Conservation Biology.

This page contains Lectures and Spreadsheet instruction videos for each section of the course. If there are files for the specific section, they will be in a folder labeled ‘Files for this section’. If you would like to view the whole playlist on YouTube, visit this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vEee4Iia5RVVW6NgVMLnvvY_d9AXkKf

Introduction with Jed Murdoch

Section 1: Basic Population Growth

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Section 2: Demographic Stochasticity

Part 1: Lecture

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Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

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Part 6: Spreadsheet

Section 3: Population Viability

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Part 5: Lecture

Part 6: Spreadsheet

Section 4: Metapopulation Dynamics

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Spreadsheet

Part 3: Lecture

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Part 5: Lecture

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Section 5: Source Sink Dynamics

Part 1: Lecture

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Part 3: Spreadsheet

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Section 6: Ecological Traps and Edge Effects

Part 1: Lecture

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Part 3: Spreadsheet

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Section 7: Hardy-Weinberg Equation and Principle

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Part 3: Spreadsheet

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Section 8: Genetic Drift

Part 1: Lecture

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Section 9: Inbreeding/Outbreeding

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Section 10: Effective Population Size

Part 1: Lecture

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Section 11: Island Biogeography

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Spreadsheet

Part 3: Lecture

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Part 5: Lecture

Section 12: Reserve Design

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Spreadsheet

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Part 6: Spreadsheet