Dear List, This may be of your interest: a course on SDMs at Imperial College London (Silwood park campus), 14 - 21 July 2014
The course “Species distributions models: concepts, methods, applications, and challenges” aims to introduce the fundamental concepts underpinning ENMs, describe the methods currently in use, and discuss the strengths and limitations of ENMs for different applications. We also plan to have specialized seminars introducing emerging concepts and next-generation approaches for modelling species distributions. The course gives equal weight to theory and application. The students will have the opportunity to learn how to run ENM with R and they will be asked to bring their own data (if such data are not available we can provide our own data). During two days the students will analyse these data and prepare a small report for discussion in the class. Lecturers: MBA - Miguel B. Araújo (Imperial College London, UK) RGP - Richard G. Pearson (University College London, UK) ICP – I. Colin Prentice (Imperial College London, UK) AP - Andy Purvis (Imperial College London, UK) GM - Gregory McInerny (University of Oxford, UK) BN - Babak Naimi (Imperial College London, UK) TN - Tim Newbold (Microsoft Research & WCMC, UK) AR - Alejandro Rozenfeld (University of Évora, PT) More information: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/ecosystemsandenvironment/events/phdcourseonspeciesdistributionmodels Best regars, Babak
