Vermont Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit

The University of Vermont
Rubenstein School of Environment and  Natural Resources
Burlington, VT 05405

Phone: (802) 656-3011
Fax: (802) 656-8683

 

 

Home
Up
Conservation Biology
Estimating Abundance
Occupancy Modeling
Estimating Life History Parameters
Ecology and Evolution

Originally published by Sinauer Associates, Spreadsheet Exercises in Ecology and Evolution can now be downloaded for free, courtesy of Therese Donovan, Charles Welden, and Sinauer Associates.  These exercises were developed to teach our own students how to put a spreadsheet model together from scratch, while at the same time learning some fundamental models and concepts in the fields of ecology and evolution.  Once you understand how models are put together, it is fairly easy to move into another modeling format (e.g., Mathematica, Stella).  

Please cite this work as:  Donovan, T. M. and C. Welden.  2002.  Spreadsheet exercises in ecology and evolution.  Sinauer Associates, Inc.  Sunderland, MA, USA. Each exercise comes with instructions for building a spreadsheet, a spreadsheet shell (that includes headings), completed spreadsheets, and answers.  Before you begin, please read the book preface, which describes how to approach these exercises. Note that all exercises were written with the assumption that exercises 0-3 have been mastered.  

Download Chapters

We are very interested in hearing your comments and suggestions about these exercises.  If you are interested in contributing new exercises to the Spreadsheet Project, please contact Terri .

 

 

Send mail to tdonovan@uvm.edu with questions or comments about this web site.
Last modified: April 11, 2007