PřF:C5980 Statist. Eval. of Biodiversity

C5980 Statistical Evaluation of Biodiversity

Faculty of Science
Autumn 1999

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).

Teacher(s)

prof. RNDr. Ladislav Dušek, Ph.D. (lecturer)

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Prerequisites

Knowledge on basic unidimensional exploratory statistical techniques, analysis of variance, correlation analysis, simple regression.

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

Syllabus

Dual concept in the evaluation of biodivrsity. Functional, genetic, structural and taxonomic biodiversity.
Biodiversity in data, biodiversity in scientific graphs.
Biodiversity indices. Species richness, heterogeneity of abundance distribution within different biological communities.
Evenness. Confidence limits for various diversity measures, approximation of min/max values.
Rarefaction. Numerical realization of rarefaction curves and associated variability. Cumulative species-abundance curves, Q-statistics.
Species abundance stochastic models: types, evaluation, fitting, graphical patterns.
Niche-oriented species abundance modelling. Computer assissted simulation in the evaluation of biodiversity.
Bootstrap and jackknife techniques. Parametric and non-parametric evaluation of biodiversity comparison. Biodiversity data in multivariate analyses.
Fractionation of biological communities and biodiversity analyses of the segments.
Markov chains in the evaluation of time-related biodiversity data. Case studies.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further Comments

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.