Dear colleagues,
Transmitting Science is offering a new course: Introduction to Geographic Analyses of Biodiversity. Dates and schedule: May 24th-28th, 2021. *Online live sessions* from Monday to Friday from *15:00 to 17:00* and from *19:00 to 21:00* (GMT+2, Madrid time zone). Instructors: Miriam Zelditch (University of Michigan, USA), Donald Swidersky (University of Michigan, USA), and Pascal Title (Stony Brook University, USA) Course overview: In this course, instructors will introduce different conceptual biological reasons why it might be interesting to examine biodiversity data in a geographic context, focusing on the relationships between *species richness*, *trait similarity, and phylogeny*, as well as *patterns of turnover* in those relationships. In this overview, they will discuss what these can reveal about patterns of *community assembly*, *in situ** diversification vs immigration*, as well as the *potential connections* between these patterns and *environmental/climatic/elevational gradients*. In this workshop, instructors will cover how to obtain the various types of data (*geographic, environmental/climatic and elevation; morphological and phylogenetic*), how to work with them in R, the metrics of diversity, and how to map them for purposes of visualization and how to conduct the statistical analyses, taking geography into account. This workshop is primarily intended for (but is not exclusive to) graduate students and postdocs with a degree in biological sciences. The instructors will supply datasets but participants are encouraged to bring (or download) geographic information, phylogeny, and morphological data. More information and registration: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/evolution/introduction-geographic-analyses-biodiversity/ or writing to [email protected] Best wishes Sole -- Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD. Scientific Director www.transmittingscience.com Twitter: @soledeesteban Instagram: @soledaddeesteban Researchgate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Soledad_De_Esteban-Trivigno ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2049 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Morphmet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/morphmet2/CAAkK8p3_rT3qM3Mx7FLOH9bUaY5%2BRDnydLf6Xfbp028f_yEMcw%40mail.gmail.com.
