Models

Find here the Shiny applications for all the models to be covered in class.

The underlying R functions and sample script are available on SIS.

Class 1: Population growth and regulation

1. May’s Equation

Class 2: Communities as Dynamical Systems

1. Lotka-Volterra Competition

Class 3: Resource Competition

1. Competition for one resource
2. Competition for two resources

Class 4: Spatiotemporal variation in the environment

1. Effect of disturbance on coexistence of two species
2. Effect of changing environmental conditions on species coexistence
   1. Environmental change switches the carrying capacities of two species
   2. Environmental change influences the growth parameters of two species

Class 5: Predator-prey models

1. Lotka-Volterra Predator-Prey Neutral model
2. Predator-Prey model with density dependence