理论生态学

学期：秋季学期

教学内容：本课程讲授生态学中的理论概念与方法，涵盖常用的生态与进化模型，包括个体水平（代谢理论）、种群水平（逻辑斯蒂模型，矩阵模型）、群落（竞争、捕食、食物网）、生态系统（功能、稳定性、集合群落、岛屿生物地理学）等。课程强调理论概念与思维，而非数学推导。

Theoretical Ecology (Fall)

This class emphasizes the application of mathematical concepts to ecology and evolution. It covers a variety of commonly used ecological and evolutionary models, ranging from individuals (metabolism) to populations (logistic growth, matrix models) to communities (competition, predation, parasitism, food webs) and ecosystems (functioning, stability, metacommunities, island biogeography). The focus will be on formalizing conceptual ideas into a mathematical framework, and will not deal heavily with mathematics. This course will give you the skills to help comprehend the theoretical background of naturally observed patterns.

生态统计方法

学期：春季学期

教学内容：本课程讲授生态学研究中常用的统计方法，包括概率分布和统计推断的基础知识，以及线性模型、线性混合模型、实验设计与方差分析、结构方程模型、贝叶斯统计、因果推断、时间序列分析等统计方法。

Ecological Statistics (Spring)

This class introduces statistical approaches that are commonly used in ecological studies. It covers probability fundamental, parameter estimation, hypothesis testing, experimental design, ANOVA, linear regression, linear mixed-effects model, structural equation model (SEM), multivariate analysis, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, time series analysis, etc.