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Lotka-Volterra Competition (Part 2)

Tutorial

Messing around with something

Feb 1, 2025

Lotka-Volterra Competition Model in Motion

Tutorial

A modern revisit with code

Feb 1, 2025

Compound probability and demographic stochasticity

What is it
Tutorial
Code

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

Oct 16, 2024

An agent based model of within-host malaria

An example
Material

A short introduction to doing an agent-based malaria model

Oct 15, 2024

Expected value of perfect information

What is it
Material

A simple vizualization

Oct 15, 2024

Secondary vectors: when David becomes Goliath

Essay

Secondary vectors should be a concern for climate change

Oct 14, 2024

Simulating ecology models: A series of tutorial

Population growth: discrete and continuous
Code
Tutorial

How to model a single-species population the first time

Oct 1, 2024

Stochastic SIS model

Learning for me
Tutorial

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

Sep 1, 2024

Simulating a scale-free network

Varying connectance…
Code
Tutorial

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

Aug 1, 2024

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

Aug 1, 2024

Simulating spatial network (Part 2)

Tutorial
Code

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

Jul 31, 2024

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?

Jul 1, 2024

Finite versus instantaneous rate

Why you gotta convert
Tutorial

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

Jul 1, 2024

GRFP Statements

An example
Material

GRFP material for a theoretical ecology project

Jul 1, 2024

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

Slides
Material

Guest lecture slides for teaching

Jul 1, 2024

Exponential waiting time

Tutorial
Modeling
Beginner

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

Jul 1, 2024

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?

Jul 1, 2024
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