EEB314H1

Modeling in Ecology and Evolution

Mathematics is central to science because it provides a rigorous way to go from a set of assumptions to their logical consequences. In ecology & evolution this might be predicting how a virus will spread and evolve, how climate change will impact a threatened population, or when natural selection will facilitate speciation. In this course you'll learn how to build, analyze, and interpret deterministic mathematical models of increasing complexity through readings, lectures, coding-based practicals, and an independent project. This will help demystify models from across ecology & evolution, including population and community ecology, population and quantitative genetics, and epidemiology.