The course presents an overview of the theory behind biological diversity evolution and dynamics and of methods for diversity calculation and estimation. We will become familiar with the major alpha, beta, and gamma diversity estimation techniques.
Biological Diversity (Theories, Measures and Data sampling techniques)
Universidade Estadual deTomskInformações sobre o curso
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Universidade Estadual deTomsk
National Research Tomsk State University is the largest classical university in the Asian part of Russia. For over 140 years TSU has been training the scientific and managerial elite, based on the integration of academic process and fundamental scientific research. It is a renowned center of education, science, innovations and attraction for creative talents, a generator of advanced ideas, and a paragon of adherence to the best traditions of Russian higher education.
Programa - O que você aprenderá com este curso
Welcome to the course "Biological Diversity (Theories, Measures and Data sampling techniques)"
This module represents the course content and its author as well as contains the additional materials to the course
Biodiversity and evolution
In this module we will explore the evolution of biodiversity. In particular we will understand what is the web of life and how species interact to coexist.Moreover, we will understand the main processes that allow the evolution of biodiversity and how it is structured and structures itself. Finally, we will review the distribution patterns of biodiversity in macroscale.
Importance of biodiversity and anthropogenic impacts
After having analysed the distribution of biodiversity in macroscale in the previous module we will see it in microscale.
Analyse and measure biodiversity
In this module we will move from a theoretical discussion to a more practical point of view and we will see hot to analyse and measure biodiversity. I will show you some sampling techniques and how to avoid the most common sampling errors. We will talk about the relevant problem of pseudoreplication.
Species-abundance distributions and comparisons
In this module we will talk about the most common species-abundance distribution models and I will show you how to compare different communities and samples in order to achieve a quantitative and statistical measure of the changes in biological diversity due to treatments.
Avaliações
Principais avaliações do BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY (THEORIES, MEASURES AND DATA SAMPLING TECHNIQUES)
I really love this course because the theories and calculations are described well and after assignments are completed I get real understanding of the theories.
A comprehensive topic on biological diversity with very interesting modules. Though it was a long lecture, it was not boring and i learned a lot.
A very interesting and clearly presented course. I would recommend this course anyone who is interested in the study of biodiversity.
This is a great course, very thorough and comprehensive introduction to Biological Diversity.
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