Details

Faculty	Faculty of Science and Medicine
Domain	Biology
Code	UE-SBL.20032
Languages	English
Type of lesson	Lecture
Level	Master
Semester	SS-2023

Title

French	Dynamique des populations et de l'évolution
German	Populations- und Evolutionäre Dynamik
English	Population and evolutionary dynamics

Schedules and rooms

Summary schedule	Thursday 13:15 - 15:00, Hebdomadaire (Spring semester)
Struct. of the schedule	2h par semaine pour 14 semaines
Contact's hours	28

Teaching

Responsibles	Rohr Rudolf Philippe
Teachers	Flatt Thomas Rohr Rudolf Philippe
Description	This course focuses on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of populations. In the 1st part students will study basic and advanced concepts of population dynamics, including population growth and growth rates, age-structured models (Leslie matrix; Euler-Lotka equation), limiting factors and density-dependence, and demographic principles of life-history evolution. In the 2nd part, students will be introduced to evolutionary dynamics, including replicator dynamics in population genetics, the principles of evolutionary game theory and adaptive dynamics. Students will learn, for example, the key concept of fitness landscapes and how they are defined from the underlying population dynamics. They will then study the evolution of fitness landscapes and, in particular, how selection acts on different evolutionary strategies. The students are expected to have a basic knowledge (BSc level) of ecology, evolutionary biology, and population genetics. This course is given biennially and alternates with Community ecology.
Softskills	No
Off field	Yes
BeNeFri	Yes
Mobility	Yes
UniPop	No

Documents

Bibliography

Please consult the Moodle page of the course.

Written exam - SS-2023, Session d'été 2023

Date	12.06.2023 10:00 - 11:30
Assessments methods	By rating
Descriptions of Exams	Written exam (90 min); one mark

Written exam - SS-2023, Autumn Session 2023

Assessments methods	By rating
Descriptions of Exams	Written exam (90 min); one mark