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We will read several chapters from
these texts:
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McCune,
B & Grace, JB
2002
Analysis
of Ecological Communities. MjM Software, Gleneden Beach,
Oregon, USA
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Available on reserve and for purchase
online
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Peck,
JE
2010
Multivariate
Analysis for Community Ecologists, MjM Software, Gleneden
Beach, Oregon, USA
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Available on reserve and for purchase
online
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Clarke,
KR, & Warwick RM
2001
Change
in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis
and interpretation, 2nd edition. PRIMER-E, Plymouth.
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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
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Lecture
2: Thursday
January 26
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 2: Community
Matrices
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(PDF-
0.3 Mb)
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McCune
& Grace 2001 - Ch 3: Sampling
Communities
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Week
2
- Dealing
with Partials
Task
for this Week: Review Partial Correlation & Regression
Lecture
3: Tuesday
- February 1
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Wells
et al. (2008) Untangling the relationships among climate,
prey and top predators in an ocean ecosystem
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(PDF-
0.4 Mb)
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Sokal
et al. (2000) Cancer incidences in Europe related to mortalities,
and ethnohistoric, genetic, and geographic distances
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Lecture
4: Thursday
- February 3
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Schwing
et al. (2002) The Northern Oscillation Index (NOI): A new
climate index for the northeast Pacific
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(PDF-
1.3 Mb)
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 8: Documenting
Analysis Flow
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Week
3
- Dealing
with Residuals
Task
for this Week: Manipulate and Transform Data
Lecture
5: Tuesday
- February 8
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch7: Data
Screening
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Homework
1 Dataset: stocks
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Homework
1 Dataset: upwell
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Lecture
6: Thursday
- February 10
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch9: Data
Transformations
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(PDF
- 0.5 Mb)
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Clarke
& Warwick 2001 - Ch 9:
Data Transformations
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(PDF
- 5.6 Mb)
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McCune
& Grace 2002 -Ch 6: Distance
Measures
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Clarke & Warwick 2001 - Ch 2:
Similarity Measures
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Week
4
- Grouping
Task
for this Week: Introduction to Grouping
Lecture
7: Tuesday
- February 15
James
& McCulloch (1990)
Review
of Multivariate Analyses
(Reference
Reading)
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 5: Species
Distributions
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 10:
Finding Groups
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Lecture
8: Thursday
- February 17
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 11:
Hierarchical Clustering
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(PDF
- 0.3 Mb)
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Clarke
& Warwick 2001 - Ch 3:
Hierarchical Clustering
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Peck
2010 - Ch 23: Clustering
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 12:
Two-Way Indicator Species
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(PDF
- 0.2 Mb)
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He et al. (1997) Cluster analysis of fishery
practices
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Wolter (1987) Cluster Analysis of the
Southern Oscillation in Surface Circulation and Climate
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Diehr
et al. (1982) Cluster analysis
headache types
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Homework
2 Dataset: desserts & colors
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Week
5
- Grouping
vs Ordination
Task
for this Week: Introduction to Ordination
Lecture
9: Tuesday
- February 22
McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 13:
Ordination
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 14:
PCA
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Clarke
& Warwick 2001 - Ch 4:
PCA
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Lecture
10: Thursday
- February 24
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Weicher
et al. (2004) Seabird distribution on the Humboldt Current
in northern Chile in relation to hydrography, productivity,
and fisheries
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Ainley
et al. (2005) Physical and biological variables affecting
seabird distributions during the upwelling season northern
California Current
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(PDF
- 0.6 Mb)
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Peck
2010 - Ch 23: PCA
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Week
6
- Extracting
Patterns from Data
Task
for this Week: Applications of PCA
Lecture
11: Tuesday
- March 1
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Peck
2010 - Ch 13: Distance Measures
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Peck
2010 - Ch 15: Weighting Variables
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Nelson
et al. (2004)
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Bonaiuto
et al. (2003)
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Mantua
et al. (1997)
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Homework
3 Dataset: Relativizations
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Homework
3 Dataset: Upwell_PCA
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Lecture
12: Thursday
- March 3
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 16:
NMDS
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Clarke
& Warwick 2001 - Ch 5:
NMDS
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Peck
2010 - Ch 24: NMDS
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Week
7
- Extracting
Patterns from Data
Task
for this Week: Applications of NMDS
Lecture
13: Tuesday
- March 8
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Clarke
(1993)
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Hyrenbach
et al. (2007)
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Hebshi et al. (2008)
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Yildirim
et al. (2010)
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Aswani
(2005)
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Lecture
14: Thursday
- March 10
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 17:
Polar Ordination
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Peck
2010 - Ch 20: Polar Ordination
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Week
8
- Finishing
Ordination
Task
for this Week: Overview of Other Methods
Lecture
15: Tuesday
- March 15
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 18:
Weighted Averaging
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Peck
2010 - Ch 19: Weighted Averaging
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 19:
Correspondence Analysis
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 20:
Detrended Correspondence
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Homework
4 Dataset: IndianOcean_seabirds
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Lecture
16: Thursday
- March 17
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 22:
Ordination Reliability
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 21:
Canonical Correspondence
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Peck
2010 - Ch 21: Canonical
Correspondence
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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)
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 23:
Comparing Groups
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 24:
MRPP
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Peck
2010 - Ch 26: MRPP
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Lecture
18: Thursday
- March 31
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Peck
2010 - Ch 27: PerMANOVA
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Peck
2010 - Ch 28: sum f
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McCune
& Grace 2002 - Ch 25:
Indicator Species
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Peck
2010 - Ch 29: Indicator
Species
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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)
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Field
et al. 2006. CalCOFI Reports
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Field
et al. 2006. Science
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Week
12
- Examples
of Applied Analyses II
Task
for this Week: Applied Examples 2
Lecture
20: Tuesday
- April 12 -
Case
2: Morphometrics
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Spear
& Ainley (1998)
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Guicking
et al. (2004)
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Thursday
- April 14
- Exam Review
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Jeopardy
Questions + Answers
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Week
13
- Start
Course Synthesis
Task
for this Week: Synthesis
1
Tuesday
- April 19
- EXAM
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Answers to Knowledge Celebration
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Thursday
- April 21
- Group Discussion
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Individual
Project - Guidelines: Content and Format
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Week
14
- Complete
Course Synthesis
Task
for this Week: Synthesis 2
Lecture
21: Tuesday
- April 26 -
Conclusions
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Peck
2010 - Ch 17: Selecting
the Tools
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James
& McCulloch (1990)
Review
of Multivariate Analyses
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Clarke
et al. (2006)
Exploring
interactions by second-stage community analyses
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Clarke
et al. (2008)
Testing of null hypotheses in exploratory community
analyses: similarity profiles and biota-environment
linkage
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Thursday
- April 28
-
Analysis Exercise
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Take
Home Practical Exercise - Guidelines
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Take
Home Practical Exercise - Dataset
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Week
15
- Student
Presentations
Task
for this Week: Synthesis 3
Tuesday
- May 3
- Presentations 1-6
(PPTs
posted by May 2, 9 pm)
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Jessica
Lake (Reviewer: Tim Thomas)
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Coulson
Lantz (Reviewer: Jessie Lopez)
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Jessie
Lopez (Reviewer: Daniel Luck)
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Daniel
Luck (Reviewer: Shannon Lyday)
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Shanon
Lyday (Reviewer: Coulson Lantz)
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Tim
Thomas (Reviewer: Jessica Lake)
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Thursday
- May
5 - Presentations
7-12
(PPTs
posted by May 4, 9 pm)
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Devon
Francke (Reviewer: Amelia
Murphy)
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Emma
Kabua (Reviewer: Rachel
Knapstein)
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Rachel
Knapstein (Reviewer: Emma
Kabua)
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Amelia
Murphy (Reviewer: Devon
Francke)
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Jaimie
Nevins (Reviewer: Lennon Thomas)
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Lennon
Thomas (Jaimis Nevins)
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