Monday

 

 Introduction, Lecture Potential of big data in biogeography

 

 

Lecture and hands on “Common public biogeographic databases and how to obtain data from them”

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

 

 

Lecture and hands on exercises “Common biases, caveats and errors in biodiversity databases”

 

 

Lecture and Hands on exercise “Novel tools in biogeography: bioregionalization, automated conservation assessment, species to area classification”

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

 

 

Group discussion and decision on project work; Lecture historical biogeography – modeling the evolution of geographic ranges

 

 

Hands on historical biogeography/group work

 

 

 

Thursday

 

 

Historical Biogeography continued – phylogenetic methods and the fossil record

 

 

Lecture and Hands on fossils in biogeography

 

 

 

Friday

Publication quality maps in R

 

 

Group work and Presentation of group work