Workshops & Classes
“A Hands-On Short Course on Species Distribution Modeling in Conservation Using R: From Start to Finish”
Short Course at Society for Conservation Biology’s North American Congress for Conservation Biology, 21 July 2016
All materials including tutorials and data files (85 MB, last updated July 26, 2016)
Just tutorials in one zipped file (last updated July 26, 2016)
Individual tutorials as Word documents (last updated July 26, 2016):
- Exercise 00 Getting Started in R
- Exercise 01 Obtaining and Cleaning Biodiversity Data
- Exercise 02 Obtaining and Formatting Environmental Variables
- Exercise 03 Choosing a Study Region
- Exercise 04 Clipping Environmental Rasters to the Study Region
- Exercise 05 Match Records to Environment and Scrutinize for Outliers
- Exercise 06 Predictors: Automated vs Thoughtful Selection
- Exercise 07 Maxent
- Exercise 08 Bias Correction
- Exercise 09 Model Tuning
- Exercise 10 Model Evaluation: Metrics
- Exercise 11 Model Evaluation: Cross-Validation
- Exercise 12 Projecting to Different Time Periods or Regions
- Exercise 13 Niche versus Distribution Modeling
“Species Distribution Modeling in R: From Start to Finish” Workshop at Kansas State University, February 2016
“An Introduction to Best Practices in Species Distribution Modeling” Workshop at Kansas State University, 2012
Updated 2016: Please note that the materials here are slightly dated compared to current knowledge about distribution modeling, but many people are still finding them useful. The presentation is an especially thorough overview of modeling practices.
- Presentation (pdf, 17 MB)
- Files and R code (zip file, 70 MB)
- Exercise III: “Giving Grinnell a Computer” (link to website, also located in the folder, “grinnellExercise”… just double-click the file named “index”)
“A Brief Introduction to Species Distribution Modeling” Workshop at Missouri
Botanical Garden, 2012
Please note that if you have a copy of the “sdmShortCourse_mbg” folder, you already have these files.
- Presentation (pdf, 12 MB)
- Files and R code (zip file, 70 MB)
- Exercise II: “Giving Grinnell a Computer” (link to website, also located in the folder, “grinnellExercise”… just double-click the file named “index”)
“Best Practices in Species Distribution Modeling for Conservation” Workshop at North American Congress of the Society for Conservation Biology, Oakland, California, 2012
Please note that if you have a copy of the “sdmShortCourse_scb” folder, you already have these files.
- Presentation (pdf, 15 MB)
- Files and R code (zip file, 70 MB)
- Exercise II: “Giving Grinnell a Computer” (link to website, also located in the folder, “grinnellExercise”… just double-click the file named “index”)
“The Species-area Relationship (SAR) in Conservation Biology” Lecture in Stan Braude’s conservation biology course, Washington University in St. Louis, 2011 and 2012.
- Handout (pdf)
