README.md

MoB Teaching Materials

This repository contains teaching materials related to the Measurement of Biodiversity (MoB) approach. This materials may be reused by others with attribution to the orginal authors.

yDiv course materials

Jon Chase, Dan McGlinn, Shane Blowes, and Thor Engel taught a one day yDiv course in Leipzig in 2018. The digital materials associated with that course as archieved here. Materials shared below were also contributed to by Brian McGill, Felix May, and Katharina Gerstner.

• Part 1 - Intro given and developed by Jon Chase
  • MoB_workshop_intro_Chase.pdf
• Part 2 - Components of Biodiversity given by Dan McGlinn (slides by Brian McGill):
  • Biodiversity_Components_McGill.pdf
• Part 3 - mobsim given by Dan McGlinn and Shane Blowes (R package by Felix May, app by Katharina Gerstner):
  • mobsim overview diagram
  • mobsim_app
  • mobsim how biodiversity components influence rarefaction and accumulation curves
  • Using mobsim in R
    • Rscript
    • Rmd
• Part 4 - Rarefaction curve and biodiversity metrics:
  • mob_terminology_handout.pdf
• Part 5 - Empirical example from Marine Protected Areas given and developed by Shane Blowes:
  • MPA_case_study_Blowes.pdf
• Part 6 - mobr intro given and developed by Dan McGlinn:
  • mobr_intro_McGlinn.pdf
• Part 7 - mobr workthrough using package vignette:
  • mobr_vignette_intro.pdf