300127 VO Concepts and methods in community ecology (2012W)

We will discuss and explore (using real data sets through computer-aided analyses) basic and advanced concepts of community ecology. Topics include: assessment and comparison of species diversity and species composition of (animal) communities; multivariate analysis of community data (especially ordination and clustering methods); assembly rules for communities; nestedness; null models; (linear and logistic) modelling the habitat preferences of focal species.