Spatial Ecology
MATH 599 / SCCC 412A / BIOL 703, Spring 2003
Tu 4:30-5:45, Th 3:30-4:45, CLS 202
(room TBA for 20 Feb, 20 March, 15 April)

Professor Matt Miller
miller@math.sc.edu
Department of Mathematics
University of South Carolina

  • How to find me. I am in in my Math office, LC 300i, MWF 1:30-2:30, with no appointment needed. I am available Tu 1:00-4:15 and Th 1:00-3:15, generally at Cool Beans, or Nice 'N Natural, or EWS 704; just let me know ahead of time and I'll tell you where. Otherwise please set up an appointment.
  • Information [pdf] in printable form
  • Homework and other Assignments
  • Maple worksheets
  • levins-skellam.mws
  • kernels.mws
  • Bessel.mws
  • Electronic access to journals
  • Science direct This is probably the most comprehensive listing, reasonably easy to use, and USC has a site license for downloading many of the articles and all of the abstracts.
  • JSTOR Not as useful; only has 6 ecology journals in its database (but good ones).
  • Springer LINK Springer journals only, but this includes J. Math. Biol.
  • Summer schools and workshops Financial support for students is available!
  • Also of interest
  • Spatio-Temporal Models in Ecology: an Introduction to Integro-Difference Equations. This is James Powell's course page at Utah State, discovered by Pam. It is obviously much more focussed than our course, as indicated by the subtitle, but seems to have much the same character. There are student projects based on original articles from the literature; there is a bibliography that overlaps with mine; and there are chunks of mathematical exposition. The CAS is Matlab in this case, instead of Maple (but we can run Matlab here too). I think for a first course in the field of spatial models, it is preferable to see a variety of approaches, but obviously this has the drawback that we don't get to the depth in any one of them that we might wish.
  • Maple Applications Homepage
  • Maple site for ordinary and partial differential equations
  • Society for Mathematical Biology
  • International Society for Behavioural Ecology
  • Quantitative Population Ecology A series on online lectures from 1996. Chapters 3 on spatial distribution and 12 on dispersal and spatial dynamics are especially relevant.
  • WWW Server for Ecological Modelling Not many spatial models as far as I can tell.
    • Last modified: February 14, 2003