All the content of this course is in this gitbook if you just want to follow along online!
Alternatively, to follow this workshop and copy/paste/modify the code, the easiest is to download this whole repository (including the example/ folder) and just follow each session in the gitbook/ folder.
Optional: to compile the gitbook for yourself run the following:
bookdown::render_book("gitbook/index.Rmd", "bookdown::gitbook")
| From | To | Details |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 | 10:00 | Intro with a coffee |
| 10:00 | 11:30 | Part 1: from traits to traitspaces |
| 11:30 | 12:00 | Part 2: from traitspaces to disparity (1) |
| 12:00 | 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 | 14:00 | Part 2: from traitspaces to disparity (2) |
| 14:00 | 16:00 | Part 3: from disparity to macroevolution |
Don't worry to much if it looks packed without much coffee breaks, they are designed within in each part to refresh your brain cells and move around a bit!
Here's a run down of what we are going to cover:
How this is going to work
Theory:
- morphological traits
- ordination: PCA and PCO (incl. distance matrices).
Skills:
- reading trait data into R.
- ordinating data into R.
Theory:
- what is disparity?
- the multidimensional nightmare.
- reducing dimensionality
- mechanisms, processes and patterns in biology
Skills:
- an intro to the dispRity package
- measuring disparity
- reducing dimensionality
- choosing and testing disparity metrics.
Theory:
- testing hypotheses with disparity
- testing hypotheses through time
- simple disparity models
- phylogenetic comparative methods and disparity? [teaser for the next day]
- disparity of disparity analyses
Skills:
- comparing disparity between groups
- comparing disparity through time
- disparity-through-time (dtt) analyses
- disparity study design