• Course schedule
• Using Excel
• Writing advice
• Homework #1: Brassica data
• Quadrat Sampling Exercise
• Homework #2: Library Research
• Group Research: Proposal Assignment
• Homework #4: 2-Factor ANOVA
• Invasions notes
• Demographic data
• Age-structured population growth - homework

 

Field trips

• Eastern LI
• Eastern Long Island - notes
• Eastern Long Island Trip Logistics
• Fire Island (see course packet)

Conservation - Red-Cockaded Woodpecker

Statistics

• Essentials of Chi-square
• Practice with Chi-square
• Poisson example
• 2 x 2 contingency table
• Spatial analysis
• Analysis of Variance
• Correlation and Regression
• Ailanthus and BNL pines
• Simpson's paradox

Forest Ecology and Distributions

• Quadrat sampling
• Tree association (Schiff preserve)
• Tree association DATA
• Forest dynamics using size frequency
• Size frequency DATA
• Forest succession w/ Weld sapling-canopy pair DATA
• Forest succession transition matrix example

• Sample Proposal 1
• Sample Proposal 2
• Sample Proposal 3
• Sample Proposals-2 & 3 lack some sections such as figures, references, title page and table of contents, but should serve to demonstrate how one goes about selling a research idea and justifying its importance.
 
• Poster Presentations
• Poster Evaluation

 

• Seed Dispersal
• Acer samara morphology
• Seed dispersal bibliography
• Lab paper assignment
• Acer Samara Drop Data
• Maple indoor drop data

 

Population Growth and Demography

• Life table basics
• Human demography
• Life table DATA
• Deterministic versus stochastic
• Grizzly exercise

 

Sample Exam

Lab paper