[R-sig-eco] "Advances in Spatial Analysis of Multivariate Ecological Data: Theory and Practice (MVSP03)"

[Oliver Hooker]

"Advances in Spatial Analysis of Multivariate Ecological Data: Theory 
and Practice (MVSP03)"


We still have a few places left on the above course please use the link 
below for full details.


http://bit.ly/2DqlIEWMULITVARIATE_ANALYSIS_OF_SPATIAL_DATA


This course will be delivered by Pierre Legendre and Guillaume Blanchet 
from the 7th - 11th May 2018 in Quebec.
Course Overview: The course will describe recent methods (concepts and R 
tools) that can be used to analyse spatial patterns in community 
ecology. The umbrella concept of the course is beta diversity, which is 
the spatial variation of communities. These methods are applicable to 
all types of communities (bacteria, plants, animals) sampled along 
transects, regular grids or irregularly distributed sites. The new 
methods, collectively referred to as spatial eigen-function analysis, 
are grounded into techniques commonly used by community ecologists, 
which will be described first: simple ordination (PCA, CA, PCoA), 
multivariate regression and canonical analysis, permutation tests. The 
choice of dissimilarities that are appropriate for community composition 
data will also be discussed. The focal question is to determine how much 
of the community variation (beta diversity) is due to environmental 
sorting and to community-based processes, including neutral processes. 
Recently developed methods to partition beta diversity in different ways 
will be presented. Extensions will be made to temporal and space-time 
data.

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Oliver Hooker PhD.
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2017 publications -

Ecosystem size predicts eco-morphological variability in post-glacial 
diversification. Ecology and Evolution. In press.

The physiological costs of prey switching reinforce foraging 
specialization. Journal of animal ecology.

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