Lecture notes and materials for our course on biodiversity patterns
| Date | Morning | Instructor | Afternoon | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday, Jan 25 | What is biodiversity (lecture/ discussion) | Jon | Measuring biodiversity (lab) | Jon |
| Tuesday, Jan 26 | Biodiversity Scaling and Components | Jon | Using Mobsim (computer lab) | Alban |
| Wednesday, Jan 27 | Metacommunities and beta diversity | Jon | Viana, Thompson metacomm. simulations (computer lab) | Duarte |
| Thursday, Jan 28 | Measuring biodiversity and its change (lecture/ discussion) | Shane | Using mobr (computer lab) | Shane (Thore) |
| Friday, Jan 29 | Biodiversity Facets I (lecture/lab) | Paola, Wubing, Roel | Biodiversity Facets II (lecture/lab) | Paola, Wubing, Roel |
| Monday, Feb 1 | Biodiversity gradients (lecture/discussion) | Jon | Diversity gradients (computer lab) | Thore |
| Tuesday, Feb 2 | Class project (elevation gradients) | All | Database structure and metadata | Thore, Emma, Roel |
| Wednesday, Feb 3 | Literature search tools | Wubing, Jon, Roel, | Data extraction | Alban, Thore |
| Thursday, Feb 4 | Data collection | Data collection | ||
| Friday, Feb 5 | Data collection | Data collection | ||
| Monday, Feb 8 | Data collection | Data collection | ||
| Tuesday, Feb 9 | Metadata and covariates | Paola, Wubing | Additional data products | Paola, Wubing |
| Wednesday, Feb. 10 | Data analysis part 1 (extracting metrics) | Thore | continued | |
| Thursday, Feb. 11 | Data analysis part 2 (analysis and covariates) | Shane, Emma, Roel | continued | |
| Friday, Feb 12 | Presentation and wrap up | All |