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WILD 7250 - Wildlife Population Analysis (updated 6 January 2016) Check back & refresh often – lecture schedule is subject to change
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Date (Week of)		Links to notes & readings
14 January	Lecture	Population analysis: Theory and scientific process
	Readings	Williams 1977, Johnson 1999
19 January	Lecture	Maximum-likelihood and information theoretic paradigms
	Readings	Anderson et al. (2000), Anderson_Burnham_2002
	Lab	MLE & AIC
	Data/Examples	MLE & AIC spreadsheet Right-click on link and save to disk
21 January	No Class
26 January	Lecture	Estimating survival rates – Kaplan-Meier and known fate models
	Readings	Pollock et al. (1989), Conroy et al.(1989)
	Lab	Lab – Introduction to Program MARK
	Other resources	Program MARK – A gentle introduction Ch 16. MARK Homepage
	Data/Examples	Introduction to Program MARK Right-click on link and save to disk
28 January	Lecture	Design matrix & link functions (see notes for 2 Feb)
2 February	Lecture	Daily survival rates
	Readings	Dinsmore et al. (2002)
	Lab	Known fate & Nesting models
	Data/Examples	lab_05b.xls, nestex.inp km3.inp Right-click on link and save to disk
4 February	Lecture	Multinomial and CMR Models for closed populations
9 February		More Design Matrix
	Lecture	DesignMatrix examples
	Lab	lab_06_More Design Matrix.pdf km4.inp
11 February	TITLES OF TERM PROJECTS DUE
	Lecture	CMR Models for closed populations (cont’t)
	Readings	Cooch and White Chapter 15
16 February	Lecture	Open populations and Goodness of fit
	Readings	Cooch and White Chapter 5.
	Lab	Multinomials, Closed Populations
	Data/Examples	lab_06.xls, capmod.zip
	Other resources	Huggins_1991.pdf, Pledger_2000.pdf
18 February	Lecture	Open populations and Goodness of fit (cont’d)
23 February	Lecture	Robust Design
	Readings	Kendall_RbstDsn.pdf, Nichols and Hines,
	Lab	Band recovery/CJS models/GOF
	Data/Examples	lab_07.xls, lab_07.zip
25 February	Lecture	Robust Design (cont’d)
1 March		Lab Reviews/Questions
	Lab	Robust Design
	Data/Examples	lab_08.xls, lab_08.zip , robust5.inp
3 March	Lecture	Lab Reviews/Questions
8, 10 March	No Classes meeting – work on term projects
15, 17 March	Spring Break
22 March	DETAILED OUTLINES OF TERM PROJECT DUE
	Lecture	Time symmetrical models
	Readings	Pradel
	Lab	Time symmetry
	Data/Examples	lab_09.xls
24 March	Lecture	Multistate models
	Readings	Hestbeck_et_al_1991
29 March	Lecture	Multistate models (cont'd)
	Lab	Multistate models
	Data/Examples	deer.inp
31 March	Lecture (11:00 in 1223)	Variance Components
	Readings	Program MARK: A gentle introduction, Appendix D
5 April	Lecture	Putting the estimates to work – Introduction to Matrix models
	Lab (12:15 – 2:00 in 2216)	Variance components
	Data/Examples	Copy of BLCKDUCK.inp (MARK Example file)
7 April	Lecture	Matrix models (cont’d)
12 April	Lecture	Lab Reviews
	Lab	Introduction to Matrix models using Poptools
		lab12.xls
14-21 April	No Classes –work on term projects
26, 28 April	Student project presentations
	Mark example files