ONLINE COURSE – Functional ecology from organism to ecosystem: theory and computation (FEER02) This course will be delivered live
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/functional-ecology-from-organism-to-ecosystem-theory-and-computation-feer02/ 13 September 2021 - 17 September 2021 TIME ZONE – UK local time (GMT+0) – however all sessions will be recorded and made available allowing attendees from different time zones to follow a day behind with an additional 1/2 days support after the official course finish date (please email oliverhoo...@prstatistics.com for full details or to discuss how we can accommodate you). Course Overview: The course will describe different aspects and methods in the field of functional ecology, combining theoretical lessons with hands-on real data. Lectures will provide the theoretical and mathematical basis for different applications of functional traits at organismal, community and ecosystem levels, with examples across different trophic levels. This will serve as a basis for exploring the practical tools to connect the effect of land-use and climate change on biodiversity to the effect of biodiversity on to multiple ecosystem functions and ecological services. An overview of existing computational methods, including recent developments authored by the lecturers, will be provided during the course and the students will learn how to apply them using functions and scripts run in R. Students are welcome to apply these tools to their own data, or use the data provided, to be analysed during the course while benefiting from advise by the lecturers. As such, compared to other courses given by the lectures, this is a slightly a more advanced and data oriented course which concentrates on detailed and practical aspects in functional traits related applications, especially computational ones. The aim of the course is to provide participants with a handy synthesis of existing concepts, tools and trends in functional ecology and guide them to apply these tools to their own field of interest. As the field of functional ecology is rapidly expanding, participants will be ready to exploit the potential of the main trait approaches. The course will use examples from the instructors new book “Handbook of Traitbased Ecology” a free copy will be supplied by PR statistics (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/handbook-of-traitbased-ecology/D79AC6C55CA7D3977AD297ED30A38EF0) Intended Audience Research postgraduates, practicing academics and primary investigators in population and community ecology working on a variety or organism type (plants, invertebrates, vertebrates) interested in evaluating changes in functional traits with environmental changes and the consequences for ecosystem functioning. The skills learnt can also be applied by management and environmental professionals in government and industry. Instructors Dr. Francesco de Bello Dr. Lars Götzenberger Dr. Carlos Carmona Course Programme Monday 13th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30 Block 1 – Part 1 (interactive, all): Short intro to the course, Introduction of lecturers and students; then trait game (splitting into zoom groups, providing data through Google sheets) – Part 2 (lecture, Francesco): „Introduction to functional ecology and key definitions” Block 2 (Lars) – Part 1 (lecture): „Response of species and communities to the environment (filtering)“ – Part 2 (practical): R material Chapter 4 – Part 3 (practical): R material Chapter 5 CWM Tuesday 14th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30 Block 1 (all) – Part 1 (interactive): Grime vs. Westoby (1h: 20 min prep, 40 min discussion; students are grouped and instructed to read the paper at end of day 1) Block 2 (Francesco) – Part 1 (lecture): „Ecology of differences and trait offs” – Part 2 (practical): R material Chapter 3 Block 3 (Francesco) – Part 1 (lecture): „Functional diversity indices (alpha, beta (?))” – Part 2 (practical): R material Chapter 5 FD + results trait game Wednesday 15th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30 Block 1 (Carlos) – Part 1 (lecture): „Intraspecific trait variability: biological relevance and quantification” – Part 2 (practical): R material Chapter 6 Block 2 (Carlos or Francesco) – Part 1 (lecture): “Response and effect trait framework” (probably including intertrophic?) – Part 2 (practical) R material Chapter 9 – Part 3 (practical) R material Chapter 10 Thursday 16th – Classes from 09:30 to 17:30 Block 1 (Carlos) – Part 1 (lecture): „Community assembly rules and null models” – Part 2 (practical): R material Chapter 7 Block 2 (Lars) – Part 1 (lecture): „Trait standards, data bases, and missing data” – Part 2 (practical): R material Chapter 2 – Part 3 (interactive): Trait sampling game Friday 17th – Classes from 09:30 to 16:00 Block 1 (Lars) – Part 1 (lecture): „Traits and phylogeny” – Part 2 (practical): R material Chapter 8 Reserve time for 1 on 1 talks, if wanted by students? Email oliverhoo...@prstatistics.com Missing Data Analytics (MDAR01) www.prstatistics.com/course/online-course-missing-data-analytics-mdar01 8 September 2021 - 10 September 2021 Functional ecology from organism to ecosystem: theory and computation (FEER02) www.prstatistics.com/course/functional-ecology-from-organism-to-ecosystem-theory-and-computation-feer02/ 13 September 2021 - 17 September 2021 Meta-analysis in ecology, evolution and environmental sciences (METR02) www.prstatistics.com/course/meta-analysis-in-ecology-evolution-and-environmental-sciences-metr02/ 13 September 2021 - 17 September 2021 Species Distribution Modeling using R (SDMR04) www.prstatistics.com/course/species-distribution-modeling-using-r-sdmr04/ 21 September 2021 - 30 September 2021 Multivariate analysis of ecological communities in R with the VEGAN package (VGNR03) www.prstatistics.com/course/multivariate-analysis-of-ecological-communities-in-r-with-the-vegan-package-vgnr03/ 4 October 2021 - 8 October Introduction to Data Wrangling and Data Visualization using R (DWDV01) www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-data-wrangling-and-data-visualization-using-r-dwdv01/ 4 October 2021 - 8 October 2021 Species distribution modelling with Bayesian statistics in R (SDMB03) www.prstatistics.com/course/species-distribution-modelling-with-bayesian-statistics-in-r-sdmb03/ 6 December 2021 - 10 December 2021 Bayesian Data Analysis (BADA01) https://www.prstatistics.com/course/bayesian-data-analysis-bada01/ 10th January 2022 - 14th January 2022 Stable Isotope Mixing Models using SIBER, SIAR, MixSIAR (SIMM08) https://www.prstatistics.com/course/stable-isotope-mixing-models-using-r-simm08/ 1st February 2022 - 4th February 2022 -- Oliver Hooker PhD. 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