Evaluating Ecological Models

William Silvert

Water & Coastal Management MSc Programme, Universidade do Algarve


  1. The first exercise, on Turbidity - Discussion of the Turbidity exercise
  2. Exercise on depletion of menhaden by high salinity - Discussion of the exercise
  3. Exercise on statistical relationship between fish eggs and larvae - Discussion of the model
  4. Exercise on oil slicks - Discussion of oil slicks
  5. Exercise on Lotka-Volterra model - Discussion of the model and exercise

Grade Distribution
23 students
X 1 X 2 X 3 X 4 X 5
1 12 1 3 5 2
2 2 0 6 11 3
3 3 3 2 2 4
4 3 2 7 3 7
5 3 17 5 2 7
Count 23 23 23 23 23
Average 2.26 4.48 3.22 2.39 3.61

Contact: William Silvert – bill@silvert.org – Tel. 289 845 841 – Cell 919 355 925