| Abstract | [Jointly presented by Sarah Thomason and Glenna Buford.] Mathematical applications are becoming widely used for research in biology, providing Murray State undergraduates the opportunity to conduct research in a variety of topics, including invasive alligator weed and tiger salamanders. Using Matlab, we compiled data on three populations of alligator weed and computed population dynamics statistics on them. A population of tiger salamanders has also been studied to perform a pedigree analysis and track the evolutionary significance of facultative paedomorphosis. |
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