{"id":5,"date":"2020-05-29T10:39:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T14:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2020-06-12T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:52:07","slug":"ecology-and-evolution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/ecology-and-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Spreadsheet Exercises in Ecology and Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/files\/2020\/05\/51ZSnVXCp2L._SX383_BO1204203200_-231x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/files\/2020\/05\/51ZSnVXCp2L._SX383_BO1204203200_-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/files\/2020\/05\/51ZSnVXCp2L._SX383_BO1204203200_.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Originally published by&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinauer.com\/\">Sinauer Associates<\/a>, Spreadsheet Exercises in Ecology and Evolution can now be downloaded for free, courtesy of Therese Donovan, Charles Welden, and Sinauer Associates. These exercises were developed to teach our own students how to put a spreadsheet model together from scratch, while at the same time learning some fundamental models and concepts in the fields of ecology and evolution. Once you understand how models are put together, it is fairly easy to move into another modeling format (e.g., Mathematica, Stella).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each exercise comes with instructions for building a spreadsheet, a spreadsheet shell (that includes headings), completed spreadsheets, and answers. Before you begin, please read the book&nbsp;preface(below) which describes how to approach these exercises. <strong>Note that all exercises were written with the assumption that exercises 0-3 have been mastered.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:34px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Please cite this work as: Donovan, T. M. and C. Welden. 2002. Spreadsheet exercises in ecology and evolution. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Sunderland, MA, USA.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:52px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-columns ab-layout-columns-2 ab-2-col-wideright has-grayscale_lighter50-background-color alignwide\"><div class=\"ab-layout-column-wrap ab-block-layout-column-gap-0 ab-is-responsive-column\" style=\"max-width:490px\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-column ab-block-layout-column ab-is-vertically-aligned-top\"><div class=\"ab-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<h4 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-heading\">Download:<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-column ab-block-layout-column\"><div class=\"ab-block-layout-column-inner\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-accordion ab-block-accordion\"><details><summary class=\"ab-accordion-title\">Preface<\/summary><div class=\"ab-accordion-text\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/files\/2020\/05\/Donovan-FM-EE.pdf\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-accordion ab-block-accordion\"><details><summary class=\"ab-accordion-title\">Full Book<\/summary><div class=\"ab-accordion-text\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/files\/2020\/05\/Donovan.and_.Weldon.2002.pdf\">Download Full Book<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-accordion ab-block-accordion\"><details><summary class=\"ab-accordion-title\">Selected Chapters<\/summary><div class=\"ab-accordion-text\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/?page_id=12\">Download Specific Chapters<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/details><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published by&nbsp;Sinauer Associates, Spreadsheet Exercises in Ecology and Evolution can now be downloaded for free, courtesy of Therese Donovan, Charles Welden, and Sinauer Associates. These exercises were developed to teach our own students how to put a spreadsheet model together from scratch, while at the same time learning some fundamental models and concepts in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/ecology-and-evolution\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spreadsheet Exercises in Ecology and Evolution&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6084,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6084"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/tdonovan-vtcfwru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}