Statistical Exploration and Measurement of Biodiversity With R

June 18-20, 2024

Cleo BERTELSMEIER

Dr. Sébastien Ollier, UNIL

Dr Sébastien Ollier, UNIL
Tristan Klaftenberger, UNIL

Participants will learn the main concepts associated with the measurement of 'diversity' in ecology and evolution. We will explore diversity indexes (richness, Simpson, Shannon, Rao, Entropy) used to evaluate the diversity of communities from functional to phylogenetic ones. We will see how to decompose this diversity in space or time. We will explore ordination methods to visualize pattern of diversity using multivariate methods especially dedicated to diversity exploration. We will illustrate these concepts on different examples from multiple fields (ecology of communities, climatic niche studies, traits analysis, landscape genetics). Students will learn how to use the main packages to analyse diversity in R (adiv, entropart, iNext, vegan, betapart, hypervolume, BAT and FD). They will be trained using case studies coming from litterature.

The course will be organized around three topics:

- Indexes of diversity: definition and estimation (3h of course and 3h of practice)
- Decomposition of diversity indexes (3h of course and 3h of practice)
- Ordination of diversity using multivariate framework (3h of course and 3h of practice)

UNIL

Travel
PhD students of the CUSO biology programmes are eligible for the reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, 2nd class) from the main station of your institution city and the course location.
Claims can be done online via MyCUSO when the activity is over.

Fees
CUSO participants: Free
Other participants: Please contact the programme coordinator at ecologie-evolution(at)cuso.ch

CUSO PhD candidates: free

Other participants: please contact the program coordinator at ecologie-evolution(at)cuso.ch

Cancellation policy: In case of cancellations before the registration deadline (May 31st): free
Late cancellations after May 31st or no-show: 100 CHF administrative fee

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