BIOL 404 Schedule - Spring 2009
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BIOL 404 Schedule - Spring 2009 |
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| Week starting: | Monday lecture | Monday lab | Weds lecture | Due this week |
| Jan 5 | Introduction and experimental design exercise | NO LAB | Line transectsread Chp 5 p158-184 (can skip/skim 162-168) | |
| Jan 12 | Replication and Pseudoreplication: read Chp 10 p344-360 and Crawley p48, 56-57 | Line Transect lab- in Pacific Spirit Park (transport provided) Meet in Zoology courtyard. Dress for rain and cold! |
Statistics review read Chp 1 p1-14, review Biol 300 notes | |
| Jan 19 | Statistics review continued | In wet lab (rm 4361 BioSci) 2-3pm: ANOVA designs and blocks read Potvin's chapter. In StatsLab: 3pm-5pm: Analysis (Excel/JMP) assignment: |
ANOVA designs and blocks (cont. from Mon) | Transect lab (Fri) |
| Jan 26 | Quadrat size/shape read p105-115, 203-223 |
Quadrat lab- in the wet lab | Competition experiments reading to be assigned in previous class |
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| Feb 2 | Design competition experiment | 2-3 pm in the wet lab: Set up competition experiment 3-5 pm in the Stats lab: Quadrat analysis |
Controls finish reading Chp 10 and the Crawley handout |
Statistics assignment 1 (Mon first 5 min of class) |
| Feb 9 | Statistical power lecture read Chp 7, p229-259. |
2-3 pm in wet lab: design soil mite survey Power assignment in StatsLab 3:00-5:00 pm hand-in at end of lab |
Independence,
orthogonality and multiple tests. reading to be assigned in a previous
class |
Quadrat lab (Fri) |
| Feb 16 | Reading week | Reading week | Reading week | |
| Feb 23 | Regression (part 1) | In wet lab: Take down competition experiment | Regression (part 2) | |
| Mar 2: | Mite identifications – location TBA | Mite identifications- in wet lab | Diversity indices and randomization tests. read Chp 12 (410-446, as before, plus 446-452) |
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| Mar 9 | Mite identifications – location TBA | Mite identifications in wet lab | Similarity and ordination read Chp 11 (p 375-406) and Chp 12 (410-446) |
Research proposal (Monday, first 5 min of class) |
| Mar 16 | No lecture (Primer workshop to go late instead) | Primer workshop on mite data 3-6pm in StatsLab | Mark-recapture 1 read Chp 2, p 19-42 |
Statistics assignment 2 (Monday, first 5 min of class) |
| Mar 23 | Jolly Seber Chp 2 p42-49 + p60-66. |
Mark-recapture I- bean counting in the wet lab (rm 4361) | Survival analysis Krebs p 524-533 |
Mite lab (Fri) |
| Sunday March 29 |
SUNDAY LAB ! Mark-recapture II: Crabs at Spanish Banks, meet at 1pm at Spanish Banks gravel parking lot |
SUNDAY LAB ! | SUNDAY LAB ! | |
| March 30 | New methods in ecology no reading req'd. |
Crab lab day 2: meet in Zoology courtyard unless providing own transport | Careers in ecology.no reading req'd. | |
| April 6 | Overflow lecture spot. | No lecture in lieu of Sunday Mar 29 lab | Mark-recapture lab (due date TBA) |