DEB2017 Course material

All of the lectures and links to material are found in the course description document.

Download the full course document here

Please find below a list of useful ressources:

• Notation document
• A summary of concepts
• Excercices and answers which follow the chapters of the DEB book.
• DEBtool: matlab package for DEB calculations, see
• Microlectures for the different chapters of the DEB book: ch0, ch1, ch2, ch3, ch4, ch5, ch6, ch7, ch8, ch9, ch10, ch11
• Lifecycles
• Essays from previous courses
• Basic methods in theoretical biology
• Compilation of "Questions and answers" from tele-courses which took place between 2001 - 2007

In addition to the general material listed above, specific material is recquired for each of the DEB in practice excercices. Please read below and prepare accordingly:

"AmP guided excercice" (1.5 hours)

• download the latest version of DEBtool
• set path to DEBtool_M directory
• make a working folder on your computer, save templates_std.zip from DEBtool folder /lib/pet and extract in your working folder

mydata_my_pet_std

pars_init_my_pet_std

predict_my_pet_std

run_my_pet_std

DEB in practice I "Resource management – deep sea fisheries" (3 hours)

see course document

DEB in practice II "Reconstructions" (3 hours)

See the course document

DEB in practice III "Populations" (2 hours)

See section 7.5 of the course document

DEB in practice IV "Biophysical ecology" (1 hour)

See section 7.6 of the course document