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This session shows the student's community drawings, provides an overview of how to quantify ecological communities, examines some large scale patterns in ecological communities, and details a few seminal theories.

Week 1: Introduction and primer to community ecology

This session introduces Principal Component Analyses, their interpretation, visualization, and other ordination types.

Performing loops and running numerical models

Learning how to plot data in ggplot.

Entering the Tidyverse for data processing.

An introduction to basic operations and functions in R.

An overview of the course and a primer for installing and organizing your R environment.

Simon J. Brandl, Jacob L. Johansen, Jordan M. Casey, Luke Tornabene, Renato A. Morais & John A. Burt. Nature Communications 11, 3832 (2020) www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-17731-2

Rangiroa Reefscape

Video abstract for Brandl et al. 2019 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.2088 Simon J Brandl, Douglas B Rasher, Isabelle M Côté, Jordan M Casey, Emily S Darling, Jonathan S Lefcheck, J Emmett Duffy (2019). Coral reef ecosystem functioning: eight core processes and the role of biodiversity. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment (doi: 10.1002/fee.2088)

Video abstract for Brandl et al. 2019 Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral-reef ecosystem function (Science). URL to the paper: science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2019/05/22/science.aav3384 Photos by Tane Sinclair-Taylor Music by Carlos Estella

Ever wondered what turtles, dugongs, or sharks do when they get too hot? They move. This is what's happening in coastal waters around Australia at the moment and your help is needed to monitor these animals and their movements. How? With Redmap. This video is an entry for the Redmap Video competition 2014, detailing the use of Redmap (Range Extension Database and Mapping Project) as a tool to d...