Monday, July 6, 2026

9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Room BE.0.08

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There is a minimum number of 10 and a maximum number of 20 participants for this training. What will you need? Participants will need their own laptop. It is a challenging task in ecology and conservation biology to explore the drivers and/or determinants of biodiversity. Diversity measuring is one of the most frequently used technique in ecology, and elsewhere in the sciences. There is a wide range of techniques to measure diversity; many of them recently developed. Indeed, there is a recent revolution in diversity measurements, although it is a classical sub-discipline of ecology with a long history, and tradition. After a brief review of the background of these methods, the most useful R packages to measure diversity are introduced. Their usage is demonstrated by elementary and field examples. Basic features necessary to complete the course are also introduced. Structure of the course is as follows: (i) Classical diversity measuring paradigm. i.1 Traditional diversity statistics, i.2 scale-dependent diversity characterization (diversity ordering), i.3 species intrapolation (rarefaction), and species extrapolation (the number of unseen species). (ii) Beyond the classical paradigm ii.1 beta and gamma diversities, diversity partitioning, ii.2 density and/or pattern-dependent diversity representations. (iii) Model-based diversities iii.1 Species-area relationships; extinction debts iii.2 Functional and phylogenetic diversity iii.3 Dark diversity and species loss iii.4 Biodiversity insurance theory iii.5 Universal neutral theory of biodiversity

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