Ten simple rules for tackling your first mathematical models: A guide for graduate students by graduate students

• Korryn Bodner ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: k.bodner@mail.utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1752-3954

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• Chris Brimacombe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9368-6106

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• Emily S. Chenery,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2314-3886

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• Ariel Greiner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0471-8031

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• Anne M. McLeod,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John’s, Newfoundland, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4712-9165

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• Stephanie R. Penk,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8027-4372

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• Juan S. Vargas Soto

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Biological Sciences, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3279-3132

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