Student selections from the primary literature

The impact of mathematics on ecology and evolutionary biology.  Chapter 4.
The impact of biology on mathematics. Chapter 1.
Both from "Mathematics and Biology: the interface"

History of population ecology and the nature of ecological models
* Grimm, V., et al.  2003.  Modelling the role of social behavior in the persistence of the alpine marmot Marmota marmota.  Oikos 102:124-136

Defining populations & estimating abundance
* Namroud, M.C., A. Leduc, F. Tremblay, and Y. Bergeron. 2006. Simulations of clonal species genotypic diversity - trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) as a case study. Conservation Genetics 7:415-426.
* Program MARK.
Gotelli, N.J, and A.M. Ellison.  2004.  A primer of ecological statistics.  Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.  Chapters 2-3.  On reserve in Dana library.

Dispersion
* Eldredge et al. 2005. The dynamics of evolutionary stasis. Paleobiology 31:133-145.
Coyne, J. A., N. H. Barton, and M. Turelli. 1997. Perspective: a critique of Sewall Wright's shifting balance theory of evolution. Evolution 51:643-671.
Wade, M. J. and C. J. Goodnight. 1998. Perspective: the theories of Fisher and Wright in the context of metapopulations: when nature does many small experiments. Evolution 52:1537-1553.

Mortality, lifetables, and matrix models
* Sillett, T.S., Holmes , R.T., and Sherry, T.W. 2000. Impacts of a global climate cycle on population dynamics of a migratory songbird. Science 288: 2040-2042.
Summary of matrix population model from the Connected Curriculum Project (CCP) at Duke University.
The Perron-Frobenius Theorem: Source 1, Source 2,

Recruitment patterns and life history theory

Human life history evolution   Human Life History Project
Pettay, J. E., A. Charmantier, A. J. Wilson, and V. Lummaa. 2008. Age-specific genetic and maternal effects in fecundity of preindustrial Finnish women. Evolution 62:2297-2304.
Helle, S., V. Lummaa, and J. Jokela. 2008. Marrying women 15 years younger maximized men's evolutionary fitness in historical sami. Biology Letters 4:75-77.
Gillespie, D. O. S., A. F. Russell, and V. Lummaa. 2008. When fecundity does not equal fitness: evidence of an offspring quantity versus quality trade-off in pre-industrial humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 275:713-722.
Rickard, I. J., A. F. Russell, and V. Lummaa. 2007. Producing sons reduces lifetime reproductive success of subsequent offspring in pre-industrial Finns. Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274:2981-2988.
Rickard, I. J., A. F. Russell, and V. Lummaa. 2007. Maternal reproductive history and the survival and fertility of their children: a study of a pre-industrial Finnish population. Early Human Development 83:S175.
Lummaa, V., J. E. Pettay, and A. F. Russell. 2007. Male twins reduce fitness of female co-twins in humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 104:10915-10920.
Lahdenpera, M., A. F. Russell, and V. Lummaa. 2007. Selection for long lifespan in men: benefits of grandfathering? Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences 274:2437-2444.
Pettay, J. E., L. E. B. Kruuk, J. Jokela, and V. Lummaa. 2005. Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 102:2838-2843.
Helle, S., V. Lummaa, and J. Jokela. 2005. Are reproductive and somatic senescence coupled in humans? Late, but not early, reproduction correlated with longevity in historical Sami women. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 272:29-37.
Helle, S., V. Lummaa, and J. Jokela. 2004. Accelerated immunosenescence in preindustrial twin mothers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 101:12391-12396.
Helle, S., V. Lummaa, and J. Jokela. 2004. Selection for increased brood size in historical human populations. Evolution 58:430-436.
Lahdenpera, M; Lummaa, V; Helle, S; 2004. Fitness benefits of prolonged post-reproductive lifespan in women. Nature 428: 178-181.
Lummaa, V., J. Jokela, and E. Haukioja. 2001. Gender difference in benefits of twinning in pre-industrial humans: boys did not pay. Journal of Animal Ecology 70:739-746.
Lummaa, V., E. Haukioja, R. Lemmetyinen, and M. Pikkola. 1998. Natural selection on human twinning. Nature 394:533-534.

Spatial patterns and processes
Ylioja, T., D. H. Slone, and M. P. Ayres.  2005.  Mismatch between herbivore behavior and demographics explains scale-dependence of host susceptibility in two pine species.  Forest Science 51: 522-531.

Harvested populations, conservation biology and human demography
Lande, R., S. Engen, and B. E. Saether. 1994. Optimal harvesting, economic discounting and extinction risk in fluctuating populations. Nature 372:88-90.
Lande, R., S. Engen, and B. E. Saether. 1995. Optimal harvesting of fluctuating populations with a risk of extinction. American Naturalist 145:728-745.