T. Wohlgemuth and M. Nobis (WSL Zürich)
23.-25.3. 2004
Subjects of the seminary:
1) Basics in biogeography
2) Basics in biodiversity
3) Collecting quality
4) Diversity measurements
5) Scale and species-area relationships; rarefaction
6) Classification and applications
7) Ordination and applications
8) Distribution of species, distribution of species richness
9) Intellectual esprit
Lectures will be combined with practical work; students are supposed to bring their own datasets in order to analyse them. Canoco is presumably one (of several) software to work with. As examples, we have distribution data sets (Swiss web flora; Flora of the city of Zurich; regional flora grid). Also, we could bring vegetation data (several grassland grids; forest vegetation of Switzerland with roughly 12.000 relevés). A nice dataset of title words in ecological core journals of the last 25 years will serve for introductary remarks on statistics.