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This module will focus on the role of niche vs. neutral processes in community assembly, and explore how analyses of diversity across scales in observational datasets may be used to make inferences about mechanisms structuring ecological communities.<\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Date<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Activity and Goals<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Reading and homework<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Thursday, Nov 2<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Communities, niches, Clements, Gleason, Hutchinson, Tilman, Hubbell. Review of people, definitions and ideas. Plant cover community matrix: SNPplants<\/a><\/p>\n

Slides:\u00a0Nov 2 slides<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tuesday, Nov 7<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Paper discussion 1<\/p>

\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Reading: Chase and Myers (2011)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Thursday, Nov 9<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Paper discussion 2<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Reading: Leibold and Mikkelson (2002)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Tuesday, Nov 14<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Paper discussion 3<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Reading group 1:Ricklefs (2008)<\/a><\/p>\n

Reading group 2: Brooker et al. (2009)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Thursday, Nov 16<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Working with actual data. The \u2018Elements of metacommunity Structure\u2019 approach of Liebold and Mikkelson (2002) will be applied to three datasets using R package metacom<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

data (culi)<\/a><\/p>\n

data(F41)<\/a><\/p>\n

data(SNP hotspots)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tuesday, Nov 28<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Brief presentations on findings of data analysis.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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