Aim
Our aim is to teach how to conjugate state-of-the-art ecological and evolutionary statistical methods to answer basic fundamental questions in biology, and to use this knowledge to inform conservation policies.
Relevance
As professional ecologists, students need to understand the importance of accounting for shared ancestry when trying to manage conservation problems across taxa.
Students need to get familiar to currently used methods in ecology and evolution to develop their career competitively.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will:
1. Handle and map traits in phylogenies using R-Studio
2. Perform phylogenetic regressions and analysis of variance
3. Collect and map geographical data in a GIS software
4. Perform basic spatial analyses
Professional development skills
At the end of the course the student will acquire:
A. Improved fluency in R and GIS usage
B. Quantitative skills
C. Statistical critical thinking
