Dear colleagues, Transmitting Science is offering a new edition of the course "Functional trait diversity: calculating and interpreting a key component of biodiversity".
Dates & schedule: live online sessions on February 3rd, 5th, 10th and 12th, 2026, from 13:30 to 18:00 (Madrid time zone). Course webpage: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/ecology/functional-trait-diversity-calculating-and-interpreting-a-key-component-of-biodiversity/ [1] This course aims to introduce participants to metrics of functional trait diversity and related community-trait structure analyses, a key component of biodiversity that is increasingly important for understanding how biological communities respond to environmental change and the consequences for ecosystem functionality. Instruction will combine lectures, hands-on computational exercises in R, and guided examples. Language of instruction: English. For any questions, please write to [email protected] Best regards, Sole -- Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD Director Transmitting Science www.transmittingscience.com/courses Bluesky @soledeesteban.bsky.social X @SoleDeEsteban Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049-0890 Under the provisions of current regulations on the protection of personal data, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR), we inform you that personal data and email address, collected from the data subject will be used by TRANSMITTING SCIENCE SL to manage communications through email and properly manage the professional relationship with you. The data are obtained based on a contractual relationship or the legitimate interest of the Responsible, likewise the data will be kept as long as there is a mutual interest for it. The data will not be communicated to third parties, except for legal obligations. We inform you that you can request detailed information on the processing as well as exercise your rights of access, rectification, portability and deletion of your data and those of limitation and opposition to its treatment by contacting Calle Gardenia, 2 Urb. Can Claramunt de Piera CP: 08784 (Barcelona) or sending an email to [email protected] or http://transmittingscience.com/additional-terms. If you consider that the processing does not comply with current legislation, you can complain with the supervisory authority at www. aepd.es . Confidentiality. - The content of this communication, as well as that of all the attached documentation, is confidential and is addressed to the addressee. If you are not the recipient, we request that you indicate this to us and do not communicate its contents to third parties, proceeding to its destruction. Disclaimer of liability. - The sending of this communication does not imply any obligation on the part of the sender to control the absence of viruses, worms, Trojan horses and/or any other harmful computer program, and it corresponds to the recipient to have the necessary hardware and software tools to guarantee both the security of its information system and the detection and elimination of harmful computer programs. TRANSMITTING SCIENCE SL shall not be liable. Links: ------ [1] https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/ecology/functional-trait-diversity-calculating-and-interpreting-a-key-component-of-biodiversity/?utm_source=chatgpt.com [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
