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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 1<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Intro, definitions, some history.<\/p>\n

We'll also play around with a simple dataset in R.<\/p>\n

Lecture Slides<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tuesday, Nov 6<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Paper discussion 1: Niches across scales<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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

Thursday, Nov 8<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Paper discussion 2: Can we begin to infer community assembly processes from patterns?<\/p>\n

Null-Beta Code<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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

Tuesday, Nov 13<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Paper discussion 3: Do communities actually exist?<\/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 15<\/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

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

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

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

data(SRELZoops)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tuesday, Nov 27<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

Brief presentations and discussion.<\/p>\n

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Is the world Clementsian\/Gleasonian\/neutral\/other?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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