Description
The following main topics are contained in the course:Population biology:
models of population growth/decline
population extinction
intraspecific competition
age/stage-structured population models
interspecific competition
predation and parasitism
Evolution:
adaptive and neutral evolution
natural selection and genetic drift
genetic impact of natural selection
origin, and maintenance of genetic variation
genotype-phenotype-fitness map
phenotypic plasticity
life-history evolution
the evolution of sex and sexual selection
speciation
coevolution