Notes on the northern spotted owl are now available. As with last Wednesday's lecture, there are more mathematical details in the notes than we'll cover in lecture and more than I expect you to understand. I provide them so that you can see the kind of detail that is needed to make reasonable quantitative projections of population dynamics. One of the things we'll discuss is how useful it is to try to build these kinds of models for management purposes, so think about the pros and cons as you review the models.
Posted by Kent at October 2, 2005 6:35 PM | TrackBack