A-module, Fall 2003, 3 credits, 15 ECTS
Contents
The goal of the course is to give an integrated overview of modern topics in population ecology, population genetics and evolutionary biology. We emphasize that a positive but critical attitude towards theory is essential for interpreting field data and for designing experiments.
Headlines: Community ecology and metapopulations, interactions between populations of hosts and parasites/diseases, habitat selection and patch heterogeneity, life history strategies and tactics, population structure, selection models, quantitative genetics and phenotypic evolution, coevolution, evolutionary conservation biology, genetic population structures, stress, inbreeding and genetics of quantitative characters.
Text-books
Hartl & Clark "Principles of Population Genetics", 3rd edition (1997), Sinauer Ass.
Notes and hand-outs.
Evaluation
1 written examination (13-scale).
ECTS-credits
15.
Semester
Fall 2003