Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Spreadsheet and R Project

Conservation Biology and Modeling Course

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This course contains Lectures and Spreadsheet instruction videos for each section.

If you would like to view the whole playlist on YouTube, visit this link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vEee4Iia5RVVW6NgVMLnvvY_d9AXkKf

Otherwise, the course videos will be available by section here. If there are files for the specific section, they will be in a folder labeled ‘Files for this section’

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

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Part 5: Spreadsheet

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

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Part 5: Lecture

Part 6: Spreadsheet

Section 5: Source Sink Dynamics

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Section 6: Ecological Traps and Edge Effects

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Section 7: Hardy-Weinberg Equation and Principle

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Part 5: Spreadsheet

Part 6: Spreadsheet

Section 8: Genetic Drift

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Part 5: Spreadsheet

Section 9: Inbreeding/Outbreeding

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Section 10: Effective Population Size

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Lecture

Part 3: Spreadsheet

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Part 5: Spreadsheet

Section 11: Island Biogeography

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Spreadsheet

Part 3: Lecture

Part 4: Spreadsheet

Part 5: Lecture

Section 12: Reserve Design

Part 1: Lecture

Part 2: Spreadsheet

Part 3: Lecture

Part 4: Lecture

Part 5: Spreadsheet

Part 6: Spreadsheet