Blog posts

Simulating ecology models: A series of tutorial (Part 2)

Growth can’t be unlimited!

Code

Tutorial

An introduction to the logistic equation

Compound probability and demographic stochasticity

Tutorial

Code

There’s a compound probability appearing in a Ricker Poisson model! Oh no!

An agent based model of within-host malaria

Material

A short introduction to doing an agent-based malaria model

Expected value of perfect information

Material

A simple vizualization

Secondary vectors: when David becomes Goliath

Essay

Secondary vectors should be a concern for climate change

Simulating ecology models: A series of tutorial

Population growth: discrete and continuous

Code

Tutorial

How to model a single-species population the first time

Stochastic SIS model

Learning for me

Tutorial

A short tutorial on how to model stochastic SIS model on a network.

Simulating a scale-free network

Varying connectance…

Code

Tutorial

One possible (possibly bad) way of modeling a spatial network that is also scale-free

A proof of concept: a coin-toss game

The most toy model

Code

What I thought was a clever analogy of insects at hotter temperatures

Simulating spatial network (Part 2)

Tutorial

Code

How to simulate a semi-realistic spatial network, maybe in kind of a hackey way

It’s weird we don’t talk about Malthus

No but seriously.

Essay

Malthus is associated with exponential growth… and bad famine policies that led to the death of millions. Why don’t we ever talk about it in Intro to Ecology classes?

Finite versus instantaneous rate

Why you gotta convert

Tutorial

Finite and instanteous rates can be confusing especially when we talk about mortality rates.

GRFP Statements

Material

GRFP material for a theoretical ecology project

Poisson process

Learning for me

Tutorial

A short tutorial on understanding the poisson process

Guest lecture slides for teaching the Lotka-Volterra Predator/Prey dynamics

Slides

Material

Guest lecture slides for teaching

Exponential waiting time

Tutorial

Modeling

Beginner

Why do we assume that the waiting time in a compartmental model is exponentially distributed?

Abouheif Mean C

Quick pic to understand

Material

Abouheif Mean C is one way to check if there is a phylogenetic signal: how does it work?