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Modelling species distributions underclimate change
Provider: Faculty of Science

Activity no.: 5930-18-12-31
Enrollment deadline: 15/04/2018
PlaceNatural History Museum of Denmark,
Date and time27.08.2018, at: 09:00 - 31.08.2018, at: 16:00
Regular seats15
ECTS credits5.00
Contact personDavid Bravo Nogues    E-mail address: dnogues@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserDavid Bravo Nogues    E-mail address: dnogues@sund.ku.dk
Written languageEnglish
Teaching languageEnglish
Semester/BlockSummer
Block noteAugust 27 - August 31 2018 9:00-18:00
Grading scalePassed / Not passed
Course workload
Course workload categoryHours
Course hours50.00
Preparation / Self-Study50.00
Evaluation / reporting5.00
Sum105.00
Content
Understanding biodiversity dynamics and species distributions under climate change is a core topic in ecology, evolutionary biology, conservation and global change biology. The course will cover theoretical aspects on species distribution under climate change from evolutionary to ecological scales. The course will cover also methodological aspects of Species Distribution Models, SDMs, hybrid SDM-population models and mechanistic models.

Learning outcome
•Ecological and evolutionary theory on species distributions and species niches
•Lectures on a wide variety of species range models, from SDMs, to hybrid SDM-population models and mechanistic models
•Methodological issues (calibration, forecasting, validation,etc)
•Training in SDM software (BIOMOD)
•Applications of SDMs, hybrid SDM-population models and process-based models models to a broad range of questions from global change biology to paleobiology

Teaching and learning methods
The course includes lectures, computer practical’s (BIOMOD), seminars based on paper discussions, and opportunities to discuss your PhD projects. You should expect some preparation for the course through background reading (~20 papers).

Remarks
To enroll on this PhD course, please:

1) Click on Apply and

2) Send a letter including an explanation about how the course will benefit your PhD project, a brief description of your PhD project and a short CV. Maximum 2 pages. Please send this application letter to: David Nogués-Bravo, dnogues@snm.ku.dk

Deadline for sending your application is April 15, 2018.


This course is funded by the Faculty of Science. There is no registration fee but students will need to cover travelling and accommodation/food cost.

A maximum of 15 applicants will be selected according to the relevance of their PhD project. Experience with R is required.

List of Teachers:

David Nouges-Bravo, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Damien Fordmam, Adelaide University, Australia
Helene Morlon, CNRS, France
Raquel Garcia, CIB - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Diederik Ferdinand R. Strubbe, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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