Abstract
Mathematical biology/ecology teaching for undergraduates has generally relied on the Lotka--Volterra competition and predator-prey models to introduce students to population dynamics. Students are provided with an understanding of the application of dynamical system theory in simulating and understanding the behavior of the natural world, and they are provided with opportunities to practice phase plane analysis techniques such as determining the stability of equilibrium points and bifurcation analysis. This paper outlines a course in ecological modeling suitable for all students in the life sciences. The course is based on realistic ecological principles, such as using nutrient concentration to measure populations together with explicit resource availability to constrain population growth, and it considers simple Lotka--Volterra systems within this theoretical framework. An advantage of this approach is that the widely experimentally observed models of mixotrophy and mutualism can be naturally and simply ...
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