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We will read several chapters from these texts:

McCune, B & Grace, JB

2002

Analysis of Ecological Communities. MjM Software, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, USA

Available on reserve and for purchase online

 

Peck, JE

2010

Multivariate Analysis for Community Ecologists, MjM Software, Gleneden Beach, Oregon, USA

Available on reserve and for purchase online

 

Clarke, KR, & Warwick RM

2001

Change in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation, 2nd edition. PRIMER-E, Plymouth.

 

Course Readings

These PDFs are for class use only.

Please do not distribute.

 

Week 1 - Course Introduction and Foundations

Task for this Week: Install and Check Out PC-Ord

 

Lecture 1: Tuesday January 24

 

Consult Software Help

If you are a Mac User, please check out: fusion

 

Lecture 2: Thursday January 26

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 2: Community Matrices

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McCune & Grace 2001 - Ch 3: Sampling Communities

 

Week 2 - Dealing with Partials

Task for this Week: Review Partial Correlation & Regression

 

Lecture 3: Tuesday - February 1

Wells et al. (2008) Untangling the relationships among climate, prey and top predators in an ocean ecosystem

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Sokal et al. (2000) Cancer incidences in Europe related to mortalities, and ethnohistoric, genetic, and geographic distances

 

 

Lecture 4: Thursday - February 3

Schwing et al. (2002) The Northern Oscillation Index (NOI): A new climate index for the northeast Pacific

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McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 8: Documenting Analysis Flow

 

 

Week 3 - Dealing with Residuals

Task for this Week: Manipulate and Transform Data

 

Lecture 5: Tuesday - February 8

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch7: Data Screening

Homework 1 Dataset: stocks

Homework 1 Dataset: upwell

 

 

Lecture 6: Thursday - February 10

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch9: Data Transformations

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Clarke & Warwick 2001 - Ch 9: Data Transformations

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McCune & Grace 2002 -Ch 6: Distance Measures

Clarke & Warwick 2001 - Ch 2: Similarity Measures

 

Week 4 - Grouping

Task for this Week: Introduction to Grouping

 

Lecture 7: Tuesday - February 15

James & McCulloch (1990)

Review of Multivariate Analyses

(Reference Reading)

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 5: Species Distributions

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 10: Finding Groups

 

 

Lecture 8: Thursday - February 17

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 11: Hierarchical Clustering

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Clarke & Warwick 2001 - Ch 3: Hierarchical Clustering

Peck 2010 - Ch 23: Clustering
McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 12: Two-Way Indicator Species

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He et al. (1997) Cluster analysis of fishery practices
Wolter (1987) Cluster Analysis of the Southern Oscillation in Surface Circulation and Climate

Diehr et al. (1982) Cluster analysis headache types

Homework 2 Dataset: desserts & colors

 

Week 5 - Grouping vs Ordination

Task for this Week: Introduction to Ordination

 

Lecture 9: Tuesday - February 22

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 13: Ordination

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 14: PCA

Clarke & Warwick 2001 - Ch 4: PCA

 

Lecture 10: Thursday - February 24

Weicher et al. (2004) Seabird distribution on the Humboldt Current in northern Chile in relation to hydrography, productivity, and fisheries
Ainley et al. (2005) Physical and biological variables affecting seabird distributions during the upwelling season northern California Current

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Peck 2010 - Ch 23: PCA

 

 

Week 6 - Extracting Patterns from Data

Task for this Week: Applications of PCA

 

Lecture 11: Tuesday - March 1

Peck 2010 - Ch 13: Distance Measures
Peck 2010 - Ch 15: Weighting Variables
Nelson et al. (2004)
Bonaiuto et al. (2003)
Mantua et al. (1997)

Homework 3 Dataset: Relativizations

Homework 3 Dataset: Upwell_PCA

 

Lecture 12: Thursday - March 3

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 16: NMDS

Clarke & Warwick 2001 - Ch 5: NMDS

Peck 2010 - Ch 24: NMDS

 

Week 7 - Extracting Patterns from Data

Task for this Week: Applications of NMDS

 

Lecture 13: Tuesday - March 8

Clarke (1993)

Hyrenbach et al. (2007)

Hebshi et al. (2008)
Yildirim et al. (2010)

Aswani (2005)

 

Lecture 14: Thursday - March 10

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 17: Polar Ordination
Peck 2010 - Ch 20: Polar Ordination

 

Week 8 - Finishing Ordination

Task for this Week: Overview of Other Methods

 

Lecture 15: Tuesday - March 15

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 18: Weighted Averaging
Peck 2010 - Ch 19: Weighted Averaging
McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 19: Correspondence Analysis
McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 20: Detrended Correspondence

Homework 4 Dataset: IndianOcean_seabirds

 

Lecture 16: Thursday - March 17

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 22: Ordination Reliability
McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 21: Canonical Correspondence
Peck 2010 - Ch 21: Canonical Correspondence

 

Week 9 - Spring Break (March 21 - 25)

 

Week 10 - Comparing Groups

Task for this Week: Overview of Group Comparisons

 

Lecture 17: Tuesday - March 29

James & McCulloch (1990)

Review of Multivariate Analyses

(Reference Reading)

McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 23: Comparing Groups
McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 24: MRPP
Peck 2010 - Ch 26: MRPP

 

Lecture 18: Thursday - March 31

Peck 2010 - Ch 27: PerMANOVA
Peck 2010 - Ch 28: sum f
McCune & Grace 2002 - Ch 25: Indicator Species
Peck 2010 - Ch 29: Indicator Species

 

Week 11 - Examples of Applied Analyses I

Task for this Week: Applied Examples 1

 

Tuesday - April 5 - KDH at workshop

Students work on Data Screening

 

Lecture 19: Thursday - April 7 -Case 1: Ocean Climate

(Guest Lecture - David Field)

Field et al. 2006. CalCOFI Reports
Field et al. 2006. Science

 

Week 12 - Examples of Applied Analyses II

Task for this Week: Applied Examples 2

 

Lecture 20: Tuesday - April 12 - Case 2: Morphometrics

Spear & Ainley (1998)
Guicking et al. (2004)

 
Thursday - April 14 - Exam Review
Jeopardy Questions + Answers

 

Week 13 - Start Course Synthesis

Task for this Week: Synthesis 1

 

Tuesday - April 19 - EXAM

Answers to Knowledge Celebration

 

Thursday - April 21 - Group Discussion

Individual Project - Guidelines: Content and Format

 

Week 14 - Complete Course Synthesis

Task for this Week: Synthesis 2

 

Lecture 21: Tuesday - April 26 - Conclusions

Peck 2010 - Ch 17: Selecting the Tools

James & McCulloch (1990)

Review of Multivariate Analyses

Clarke et al. (2006)

Exploring interactions by second-stage community analyses

Clarke et al. (2008)

Testing of null hypotheses in exploratory community analyses: similarity profiles and biota-environment linkage

 
Thursday - April 28 - Analysis Exercise
Take Home Practical Exercise - Guidelines
Take Home Practical Exercise - Dataset
 

Week 15 - Student Presentations

Task for this Week: Synthesis 3

 

Tuesday - May 3 - Presentations 1-6

(PPTs posted by May 2, 9 pm)

Jessica Lake (Reviewer: Tim Thomas)
Coulson Lantz (Reviewer: Jessie Lopez)
Jessie Lopez (Reviewer: Daniel Luck)
Daniel Luck (Reviewer: Shannon Lyday)
Shanon Lyday (Reviewer: Coulson Lantz)
Tim Thomas (Reviewer: Jessica Lake)
 

Thursday - May 5 - Presentations 7-12

(PPTs posted by May 4, 9 pm)

Devon Francke (Reviewer: Amelia Murphy)
Emma Kabua (Reviewer: Rachel Knapstein)
Rachel Knapstein (Reviewer: Emma Kabua)
Amelia Murphy (Reviewer: Devon Francke)
Jaimie Nevins (Reviewer: Lennon Thomas)
Lennon Thomas (Jaimis Nevins)

 

 

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