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Resources
for theoretical ecology
Programming
Numerical
Recipes
in C: good for algorithms
Wolfram MathWorld: good for explanations of mathematical concepts Resources for both Matlab and R: Matlab intro
and useful commands,
R useful commands
(created for courses in theoretical population biology)
Fast Matlab programming (note: the conecpt of "vectorization"
applies to R as well):An introduction to Matlab or R for dynamical models in biology (Ellner and Guckenheimer) [Note on 4/12/11: Steve Ellner's website indicates these as "temporarily down"; hopefully these great resources will return soon] Matlab/R translation MATLAB
array
manipulation tips and tricks
Matlab vectorisation tricks Writing Fast MATLAB Code Vectorization Tips (scroll down to "Drea's Desk: Vectorization Tips") Matlab Tips and Tricks Matlab mini-course Programming in R:
Teaching a theoretical ecology/theoretical population biology/population dynamics course and finding that the students have forgotten much of their algebra and calculus due to lack of use? Here's a handout I created to provide a reminder of the most relevant basics: algCalc.pdf LaTeX
LaTeX
commands
BibTeX entries Web of Science to BibTeX conversion BibTeX style files for Ecology, American Naturalist, Ecology Letters, Journal of Ecology, and Oikos (under "Data and Other Files" - note the useful R help files too) BibTeX and LaTeX style files for a number of ecology and evolution journals (including Ecology, Ecology Letters, Evolution, Genetics, JTB, PLoS, PNAS, Nature, and Science - note the long list of helpful LaTeX links as well) Still can't find a BibTeX style file for the journal you're submitting to? The makebst macro in custom-bib is an excellent resource for creating a .bst file, typically for use with natbib.sty. The files I've created with this are: gcb.bst
for Global Change Biology
Learning LaTeX by example
(see the .tex file first)jxb.bst for the Journal of Experimental Biology consbiol.bst for Conservation Biology -- this also needs \bibpunct{(}{)}{;}{a}{}{} in the preamble. All are posted as zip files, so decompress before using. Also, be sure to include \usepackage{natbib} in the preamble. Helpful LaTeX links Writing in LaTeX but submitting to a journal that doesn't accept .tex or .pdf format? There are a number of LaTeX/Word and LaTeX/rich text converters; I typically use latex2rtf Organizations Summer programs Just
for
fun
PhD
Comics
The Mathematics Genealogy Project Marine ecology genealogy Programming in Matlab? Running into problems? Ask it "why". |