"Multivariate analysis of ecological communities in R with the VEGAN package (VGNR01)"
We still have a few places left on the above course please use the link below for full details. http://bit.ly/2tKjAZh_COURSE_ON_VEGAN_PACKAGE This course will be delivered by Peter Solymos and Guillaume Blanchet who both author the VEGAN package. The course will run from the 23rd - 27th April 2018 in Glasgow City Cdntre at PR sttistics head offices. We have accommodartion fascilitiesd avasilable only 5 minutes walk form the venue. Course Overview: This 5-day course will cover the concepts, methods, and R tools that can be used to analyse community ecology data. The course will review data processing techniques relevant to multivariate data sets. We will cover diversity and null-model analysis, distance measures and distance based multivariate methods, clustering, classification, and dimension reduction techniques using the vegan R extension package. We will use real world data sets to motivate the analyses, e.g. describing patterns along environmental or anthropogenic disturbance gradients, quantifying the effects of continuous and discrete predictors, and making predictions based on multivariate model results. We will emphasize visualization and reproducible workflows. Modules will consist of introductory lectures, guided computer coding, and exercises for the participants. The course is intended for intermediate R users with interest in community ecology, especially in the fields of terrestrial and wetland ecology, microbial ecology, and natural resource management. Sunday 22nd Meet at 43 Cook Street, Glasgow G5 8JN at approx. 17:00 onwards Monday 23rd – Classes from 09:00 to 17:00 Module 1: Introduction to community data analysis, basics of programming in R Module 2: Data processing (long and wide data representations, single and multiple table operations, data aggregation and transformation) Tuesday 24th – Classes from 09:00 to 17:00 Module 3: Diversity analysis, species-abundance distributions, null-model analysis Module 4: Distance measures and distance based methods (Mantel test, distance decay, etc.) Wednesday 25th – Classes from 09:00 to 17:00 Module 5: Hierarchical and nonhierarchical clustering and classification Module 6: Dispersion and permutational MANOVA Thursday 26th – Classes from 09:00 to 17:00 Module 7: Response curves, ordination (correspondence analysis, nonmetric scaling, constrained ordination). Module 8: Fitting environmental variables to ordination, permutation based testing of the significance of constraints. Friday 27th – Classes from 09:00 to 16:30 Module 9: Indicator species analysis and multivariate calibration. Modules 10: special topics and discussion, analyzing participants’ own data. Please check our sister sites www.PRstatistics.com (Ecology and life sciences) www.PRinformatice.com (Bioinformatics and data science) www.PSstatistics.com (Behahviour and cognition) and our other courses ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ 1. February 19th – 23rd 2018 MOVEMENT ECOLOGY (MOVE01) Margam Discovery Centre, Wales, Dr Luca Borger, Dr Ronny Wilson, Dr Jonathan Potts www.prstatistics.com/course/movement-ecology-move01/ 2. February 19th – 23rd 2018 GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRICS USING R (GMMR01) Margam Discovery Centre, Wales, Prof. Dean Adams, Prof. Michael Collyer, Dr. Antigoni Kaliontzopoulou http://www.prstatistics.com/course/geometric-morphometrics-using-r-gmmr01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ 3. March 5th - 9th 2018 SPATIAL PRIORITIZATION USING MARXAN (MRXN01) Margam Discovery Centre, Wales, Jennifer McGowan www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-marxan-mrxn01/ 4. March 12th - 16th 2018 ECOLOGICAL NICHE MODELLING USING R (ENMR02) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Neftali Sillero http://www.prstatistics.com/course/ecological-niche-modelling-using-r- enmr02/ 5. March 19th – 23rd 2018 BEHAVIOURAL DATA ANALYSIS USING MAXIMUM LIKLIHOOD IN R (BDML01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr William Hoppitt http://www.psstatistics.com/course/behavioural-data-analysis-using-maximum- likelihood-bdml01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ 6. April 9th – 13th 2018 NETWORK ANAYLSIS FOR ECOLOGISTS USING R (NTWA02 Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Marco Scotti www.prstatistics.com/course/network-analysis-ecologists-ntwa02/ 7. April 16th – 20th 2018 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL MODELLING FOR PSYCHOLOGISTS USING R (IPSY01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Dale Barr, Dr Luc Bussierre http://www.psstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-statistics-using-r-for- psychologists-ipsy01/ 8. April 23rd – 27th 2018 MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES USING THE VEGAN PACKAGE (VGNR01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Peter Solymos, Dr. Guillaume Blanchet www.prstatistics.com/course/multivariate-analysis-of-ecological-communities- in-r-with-the-vegan-package-vgnr01/ 9. April 30th – 4th May 2018 QUANTITATIVE GEOGRAPHIC ECOLOGY: MODELING GENOMES, NICHES, AND COMMUNITIES (QGER01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Dan Warren, Dr. Matt Fitzpatrick www.prstatistics.com/course/quantitative-geographic-ecology-using-r- modelling-genomes-niches-and-communities-qger01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ 10. May 7th – 11th 2018 ADVANCES IN MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL ECOLOGICAL DATA USING R (MVSP02) CANADA (QUEBEC), Prof. Pierre Legendre, Dr. Guillaume Blanchet www.prstatistics.com/course/advances-in-spatial-analysis-of-multivariate- ecological-data-theory-and-practice-mvsp03/ 11. May 14th - 18th 2018 INTRODUCTION TO MIXED (HIERARCHICAL) MODELS FOR BIOLOGISTS (IMBR01) CANADA (QUEBEC), Prof Subhash Lele www.prstatistics.com/course/introduction-to-mixed-hierarchical-models-for- biologists-using-r-imbr01/ 12. May 21st - 25th 2018 INTRODUCTION TO PYTHON FOR BIOLOGISTS (IPYB05) SCENE, Scotland, Dr. Martin Jones http://www.prinformatics.com/course/introduction-to-python-for-biologists- ipyb05/ 13. May 21st - 25th 2018 INTRODUCTION TO REMOTE SENISNG AND GIS FOR ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS (IRMS01) Glasgow, Scotland, Prof. Duccio Rocchini, Dr. Luca Delucchi www.prinformatics.com/course/introduction-to-remote-sensing-and-gis-for- ecological-applications-irms01/ 14. May 28th – 31st 2018 STABLE ISOTOPE MIXING MODELS USING SIAR, SIBER AND MIXSIAR (SIMM04) CANADA (QUEBEC) Dr. Andrew Parnell, Dr. Andrew Jackson www.prstatistics.com/course/stable-isotope-mixing-models-using-r-simm04/ 15. May 28th – June 1st 2018 ADVANCED PYTHON FOR BIOLOGISTS (APYB02) SCENE, Scotland, Dr. Martin Jones www.prinformatics.com/course/advanced-python-biologists-apyb02/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ 16. June 12th - 15th 2018 SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MODELLING (DBMR01) Myuna Bay sport and recreation, Australia, Prof. Jane Elith, Dr. Gurutzeta Guillera www.prstatistics.com/course/species-distribution-models-using-r-sdmr01/ 17. June 18th – 22nd 2018 STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELLING FOR ECOLOGISTS AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGISTS USING R (SEMR02) Myuna Bay sport and recreation, Australia, Dr. Jon Lefcheck www.prstatistics.com/course/structural-equation-modelling-for-ecologists- and-evolutionary-biologists-semr02/ 18. June 25th – 29th 2018 SPECIES DISTRIBUTION/OCCUPANCY MODELLING USING R (OCCU01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Darryl McKenzie www.prstatistics.com/course/species-distributionoccupancy-modelling-using-r- occu01/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------ 19. July 2nd - 5th 2018 SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS FOR BEHAVIOURAL SCIENTISTS USING R (SNAR01) Glasgow, Scotland, Prof James Curley http://www.psstatistics.com/course/social-network-analysis-for-behavioral- scientists-snar01/ 20. July 8th – 12th 2018 MODEL BASE MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF ABUNDANCE DATA USING R (MBMV02) Glasgow, Scotland, Prof David Warton www.prstatistics.com/course/model-base-multivariate-analysis-of-abundance- data-using-r-mbmv02/ 21. July 16th – 20th 2018 PRECISION MEDICINE BIOINFORMATICS: FROM RAW GENOME AND TRANSCRIPTOME DATA TO CLINICAL INTERPRETATION (PMBI01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr Malachi Griffith, Dr. Obi Griffith www.prinformatics.com/course/precision-medicine-bioinformatics-from-raw- genome-and-transcriptome-data-to-clinical-interpretation-pmbi01/ 22. July 23rd – 27th 2018 EUKARYOTIC METABARCODING (EUKB01) Glasgow, Scotland, Dr. Owen Wangensteen http://www.prinformatics.com/course/eukaryotic-metabarcoding-eukb01/ 23. October 8th – 12th 2018 Multivariate analysis of spatial ecological data using R (MASE02) Glasgow, Scotland, Prof. Subhash Lele https://www.prstatistics.com/course/multivariate-analysis-of-spatial- ecological-data-using-r-mase02/ Oliver Hooker PhD. 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