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Week
1
Spatial
Statistics: Rationale and Terminology
Lecture
1: Wednesday - Sept 3
Schneider,
D.C. 1994. The concept of scale in ecology. Pages 1 - 23.
In:
Quantitative Ecology. Spatial and Temporal Scaling. Academic Press, San Diego.
(Hard
Copy Available From Instructor)
Lecture
2: Monday - Sept 8
| Schneider,
D.C. 2001. The rise of the concept of scale in ecology. Bioscience
51 (7): 545-553 |
(PDF-
1.5 Mb) |
| Legendre,
P. 1993. Spatial Autocorrelation: Trouble or New Paradigm? Ecology 74 (6): 1659-1673 |
|
Lecture
3: Wednesday
- Sept 10
| Jumars,
P.A., Thistle, D. & Jnes, M.L. 1977. Detecting 2-dimensional spatial structure
in biological data. Oecologia 28 (2): 109-123 |
(PDF-
0.5 Mb) |
| Horne,
J.K. & Schneider, D.C. 1995. Spatial Variance in Ecology. Oikos 74 (1): 18-26 |
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Week
2
Multi-scale
Analyses: Single and Multiple Species
Before
Monday - Sept 15
|
Hamner, W.H. & Schneider, D.C. 1986. Regularly Spaced
Rows of Medusae in the Bering Sea: Role of Langmuir Circulation. Limnology and
Oceanography 31 (1): 171-177 |
(PDF-
0.2 Mb) |
| Schneider,
D.C, Piatt, J. F. 1986. Scale-dependent correlation of seabirds with schooling
fish in a coastal ecosystem. Marine Ecology Progress Series 32: 237-246 |
|
Before
Wednesday - Sept 17
|
Schneider,
D.C. 1994. Multiscale Analysis. Pages 24-45.
In:
Quantitative Ecology. Spatial and Temporal Scaling. Academic
Press, San Diego. |
Hard
Copy Available From Instructor |
Week
3
Autocorrelation
Before
Monday - Sept 22
|
Sokal RR, Oden NL, Thomson BA. 1998. Local spatial autocorrelation in biological
variables. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 65 (1): 41-62
|
(PDF-
1.8 Mb) |
| Additional
Optional Reading Sokal,
R.R., Oden, N.L. 1978. Spatial Sutocorrelation in Biology. I. Methodology. Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society10 (2): 199-228
| |
Before
Wednesday - Sept 24
|
Reid, K., Sims, M., White, R.W., Gillon, K.W. 2004. Spatial distribution
of predator/prey interactions in the Scotia Sea: implications for measuring predator/fisheries
overlap. Deep-sea research. Part II 51 (12-13) :1383 -1396 |
(PDF-
0.1 Mb) |
| Rosenberg,
M.S., Sokal, R.R., Oden, N.L., DiGiovanni, D. 1999. Spatial autocorrelation of
cancer in western Europe. European Journal of Epidemiology 15 (1): 15-22 |
|
Week
4
Rookcase
Program - Introduction
Before
Monday - Sept 29
|
Download
ROOKCASE program here: http://www.lpc.uottawa.ca/data/scripts/RookCase-xla-pdf.zip |
(Program) |
|
Sawada,
M. 1999. Rookcase:
an Excel 97/2000 visual basic
add-in for exploring global and local spatial
autocorrelation.
Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America 80:231–234 |
|
Before
Wednesday - Oct 1
|
Download
ROOKCASE user manual here: http://www.lpc.uottawa.ca/data/scripts/RooksCaseManual.zip We
will go through ROOKCASE program in class next week. |
(Manual) |
Week
5
Rookcase
Program - Algorithms
Before
Monday - Oct 6
|
Optional Reading Simon,
J.L. 1997. The Procedures of Monte Carlo Simulation (and Resampling). Chapter
10. In: Resampling: The New Statistics. Available Online at: www.resample.com/content/text/index.shtm |
(PDF-
0.05 Mb) |
| Optional
Reading Crowley,
P.H. 1992. Resampling methods for computation- intensive data analysis in ecology
and evolution. Annual Reviews Ecology and Systematics 23: 405-447 |
|
Before
Wednesday - Oct 8
|
Anselin, L. 1995. Local Indicators of Spatial Association — LISA. Geographical
Analysis 27: 93–115 |
(PDF-
0.1 Mb) |
| Sawada,
M. 2004. Global Spatial Autocorrelation Indices-Moran’s I, Geary’s C
and the General Cross-Product Statistic. Research paper from Laboratory for Paleoclimatology
and Climatology at the University of Ottawa. (www.lpc.uottawa.ca/publications/moransi/moran.htm) |
|
Week
6
Rookcase
Program - Applications
Before
Monday - Oct 13
| Focus
on Methods Premo,
L.S. 2004. Local
spatial autocorrelation statistics quantify multi-scale patterns distributional
data: an example from the Maya Lowlands. Journal of Archaeological Science
31 (7): 855-866 |
|
| Focus
on Methods Almeida-Neto,
M., & Lewinsohn, T.M. 2004. Small-scale spatial autocorrelation and the interpretation
of relationships between phenological parameters. Journal Vegetation Science 15
(4): 561-568 |
(PDF-
0.1 Mb) |
Before
Wednesday - Oct 15
| Focus
on Methods
Spiker, J.S., & Warner, T.A. 2007. Scale and
Spatial Autocorrelation From A Remote Sensing Perspective. In: Geo-Spatial Technologies
in Urban Environments. Berlin, Springer. Pp. 197-213 |
|
| Focus
on Methods O'Loughlin,
J., Flint, C., & Anselin, L. 1994. The geography of the nazi vote - context,
confession, and class in the reichstag election of 1930. Annals of the Association
of American Geographers 84(3): 351-380 |
(PDF-
5.0 Mb) |
Week
7
Partial Correlations and Path Analysis
Before
Monday - Oct 20
| Focus
on the Principles Mitchell.,
R.J. 1992. Testing Evolutionary and Ecological Hypotheses Using Path Analysis
and Structural Equation Modelling. Functional Ecology 6(2):123-129 |
|
| Focus
on the Principles Petraitis,
P.S., Dunham, A.E., & Niewiarowski, P.H. 1996. Inferring Multiple Causality:
The Limitations of Path Analysis. Functional Ecology 10(4):421-431 |
(PDF-
1.3 Mb) |
Before
Wednesday - Oct 22
| Focus
on Methods
Sokal, R.R., Oden, N.L., Rosenberg, M.S., &
Thomson, B.A. 2000. Cancer incidences in Europe related to mortalities, and ethnohistoric,
genetic, and geographic distances. PNAS 97(11):6067-6072 |
|
| Focus
on Methods
Wells, B.K., Grimes, C.B., Sneva, J.G., McPherson, S., & Waldvogel, J.B. 2008.
Relationships between oceanic conditions and growth of Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus
tshawytscha) from California, Washington, and Alaska, USA. Fisheries Oceanography
17 (2):101-125
|
(PDF-
1.6 Mb) |
Week
8
PC-ORD Analysis - Introduction
Before
Monday - Oct 27
| Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
1: Chapter 1 - Overview |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
|
PC-ORD
Help Getting
Started - Using PC-ORD - Introduction |
Read Computer Help
Files |
Before
Wednesday - Oct 29
| Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
1: Chapter 5 - Species on Environmental Gradients |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
1: Chapter 6 - Distance Measures |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
Week
9
PC-ORD Analysis - Ordination
Task
for this Week:
Select Dataset
for Independent Project
with Instructor
Before
Monday - Nov 3
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
1: Chapter 6 - Distance Measures |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
|
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
4: Chapter 13 - Introduction to Ordination |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
Before
Wednesday - Nov 5
|
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
4: Chapter 13 - Introduction to Ordination |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
|
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
4: Chapter 14 - Principal Component Analysis
- I | Paper
Copy Distributed
in Class |
Week
10
PC-ORD Analysis - More Ordination
Task
for this Week: Start
an Analysis Log for your Dataset
(Follow
Model in Chapter 8 - "Documenting The Flow of Analysis")
Before
Monday - Nov 10
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
4: Chapter 14 - Principal Component Analysis
- II |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
Optional
Readings - Two PCA Articles |
Ainley et al. 2005 (PDF
- 0.5 Mb) Weicher et al. 2004 (PDF
- 0.3 Mb) |
Before
Wednesday - Nov 12
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
2: Chapter 7 - Data Screening |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
|
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
2: Chapter 9 - Data Transformations |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
Week
11
PC-ORD Analysis - Working on Independent Projects
Task
for this Week: Move
Forward with the Independent Analysis
(Applied
Exam - Test Knowledge of Software and Tools)
Before
Monday - Nov 17
Review
of Analysis Thus Far: Progress, Problems, Next Steps
Before
Wednesday - Nov 19
Review
of PC-ORD Software - Applied Exam
Week
12
PC-ORD Analysis - Comparing Groups
Task
for this Week: Learn Additional Techniques
Before
Monday - Nov 24
NOTE:
Make-up Class: nov 24: 9:30 - 10.50
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
4: Chapter 16 - Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
Before
Wednesday - Nov 26
|
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
4: Chapter
17 - Polar Ordination |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
Analysis
of Ecological Communities Part
5: Chapter 24 & 25- MRPP
& Indicator Analysis |
Paper Copy Distributed
in Class |
Week
13
Student Presentations
Task
for this Week: Present and Evaluate Independent Projects
Dec
1 & 3:
Class
Presentations
Papers
Due: Dec 2 & Dec 4
Week
14
End
of the Class
Peer Reviews Due: Dec
10
