| Lec # | Topics |
|---|---|
| Complexity, Stability, and the Struggle for Existence | |
| 1 | Predator-prey Models |
| 2 | Supplemental Information Ecological Experiments |
| 3 | Supplemental Information Niche Theory |
| 4 | Stability of Complex Systems |
| 5 | Supplemental Information Competitive Exclusion |
| 6 | Chaotic Dynamics |
| 7 | Network Theory |
| Spatial Interactions | |
| 8 | Population Dispersal |
| 9 | Patchiness |
| 10 | Pattern and Scale |
| 11 | Spatial Models and Interacting Particle Systems |
| 12 | Lattice-gas Models |
| 13 | Plankton Patchiness |
| 14 | Supplemental Information Scaling from Trees to Forests |
| Co-evolution with the Environment | |
| 15 | Evolution of Biodiversity |
| 16 | Supplemental Information Adaptation and Diversification |
| 17 | Artificial Life and Biological Complexity |
| 18 | Cycles |
| Student Presentations | |
| 19 | Reactivity, Stability, and Plankton (2 Presentations) |
| 20 | Theory of Productivity-Diversity Relationships |
| 21 | Evolution of Virulence in Host-Pathogen Systems |
| 22 | Renormalization Approach to Biological Systems |
| 23 | Directed Motion in Lotka-Volterra Models |
| 24 | Supplemental Information "Highly Optimized Tolerance" and Ecology |
| 25 | Theory of Vegetation Patterns |