Dear colleagues,

Transmitting science is offering a new 3-day course: Functional trait 
diversity: calculating and interpreting a key component of biodiversity.

Format: Live Online (synchronous). Places are limited to 18 
participants.
Dates and schedule: May 3rd-5th, 2023, from 13:00-17:00 (Madrid time 
zone)
Instructor: Dr. Francesco de Bello (Desertification Research Center, 
Spain) and Dr. Carlos Pérez Carmona (University of Tartu, Estonia).

More information and registration: 
https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/ecology/functional-trait-diversity-calculating-and-interpreting-a-key-component-of-biodiversity/ 
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Course Overview
This course is focused on applying and interpreting indices of 
functional trait diversity, and related metrics of community trait 
structure, a key component of biodiversity that is becoming increasingly 
important to understand how communities might respond to environmental 
change and the consequences of these changes for ecosystem 
functionality.
Functional diversity, the extent of trait differences between organisms, 
is a multifaceted concept that can be measured in many different ways, 
leaving ecologists often with technical doubts about which indices to 
use and how to apply them. We will deal with these doubts, with both 
real examples from biological communities and simulations and applying 
all concepts directly with several R scripts accompanying the 
instructor’s recent book on functional trait tools.
We will consider and learn how to compute and interpret different 
metrics of trait dissimilarity among organisms, learn how to account for 
intraspecific trait variability, combine indices of functional trait 
diversity with indices of phylogenetic diversity, compute functional 
diversity at different scales (e.g. alpha and beta partitioning of 
diversity) and learn how to navigate packages created by the 
instructor’s team (TPD, among others).

Best wishes
Juanvi



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Juan Vicente Bertó Mengual
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