Practicals for the EEC-Master module Quantitative Conservation Biogeography
Ecology & Macrecology group, University of Potsdam
The Master module “Quantitative conservation biogeography” is an elective module within the Master programme “Ecology, Evolution and Conservation (EEC)” at the University of Potsdam. It typically runs in the summer term.
- Module coordinator: Prof. Dr. Damaris Zurell
- Contributors: Dr. Guillermo Fandos, Anne-Kathleen Malchow, Dr. Jette Reeg
This site provides the accompanying R practicals for the module. Topics include:
- Occupancy modelling: data preparation, fitting
simple occupancy-detection models in
unmarked, evaluating occupancy models and making predictions, dynamic occupancy models - Spatial explicit population modelling: modelling dispersal and demography, assessing reintroduction success and population viability under global change - based on RangeShiftR
Prerequisites for the module are: basic understanding of conservation biogeography (e.g. from accompanying lecture), basic knowledge of statistics, basic knowledge in geographic information systems, basic understanding of R. If you don’t feel comfortable with R yet, you should work through the R preparatory course first.