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ESPM 114: Wildlife Ecology

ESPM 114: Wildlife Ecology (Spring 2013, UC Berkeley). Instructor: Justin S. Brashares. This course provides an introduction to wildlife ecology and its relationship to management and conservation programs. The course moves from a focus on populations to communities and ecosystems, followed by selected case studies. Students will be introduced to tools used by ecologists including basic population modeling, GIS, and wildlife survey techniques.

Lecture 04 - Habitat Selection, Social Organization

Time Lecture Chapters
[00:00:00] 1. Habitat Selection
[00:30:12] 2. Social Organization

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Lecture 01 - Introduction
Lecture 02 - Niche Ecology
Lecture 03 - Niche Ecology (cont.)
Lecture 04 - Habitat Selection, Social Organization
Lecture 05 - Social Organization (cont.)
Lecture 06 - Population Dynamics Part I
Lecture 07 - Population Dynamics Part II
Lecture 08 - Populations III: Harvest
Lecture 09 - Populations III: Harvest (cont.)
Lecture 10 - Population Estimation
Lecture 11 - Metapopulations
Lecture 12 - Wildlife Communities
Lecture 13 - Animal Competition
Lecture 14 - Predation
Lecture 15 - Predation (cont.)
Lecture 16 - Community Ecology, Zoogeography
Lecture 17 - Zoogeography (cont.), Geospatial Applications in Wildlife Ecology
Lecture 18 - Wildlife Disease Ecology & Emerging Infectious Diseases
Lecture 19 - Wildlife and Climate Change
Lecture 20 - Genetic Tools in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
Lecture 21 - Invasion Ecology
Lecture 22 - Wildlife Utilization and Economics
Lecture 23 - Wildlife Utilization and Economics (cont.), Wildlife Policy in the U.S.
Lecture 24 - Wildlife Policy in the U.S. (cont.)