Assignments

The Assignments were made for a distance-learning course for graduate students by R.H. Giles in 1999 taught throught the Northern Virginia Graduate Center. The course was called Gamma Theory: Advanced Wildlife Resource Management. Assignments change each year in response to changing knowledge, teaching strategies, and student needs.

1. Index for the Assignments
2. Preface; probability; deer weight estimate; key words; Chapter 1 of Forest Faunal Systems
3. Units 7 to 13; enterprise ideas; ranging
4. Deer Group; equifinality; feedback
5. Monitoring and feedback; rasking
6. Study of GAM and G 146, 138, 11, 142, 3; adaptive management; agroforestry; raccoon group; principles; read Chapter 3
7. Chapt 4; types of objectives; diversity; objective weighting
8. Scanlon/Giles paper; Chapt. 17 on game theory; law enforcement chapter
9. Chapt 18; linear regression as aid to decisions; CAPPER units
10. Computer units; Chapt 16; Chapt 13
11. Funding; research; Chapt 6; human populations
12. Chapt 12,11, injury-damage difference; Chapt 8
13. Chapt 8 sections 1 to 3; Chapt 9; List of sample exam questions
14. Chapt 7, 8 (pop. Estimation); Chapt 15; Chapt 7a

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Last revision January 17, 2000.