Dear colleagues,

Registration is open for Transmitting Science’ course “Environmental 
variables: how to download and process them with R”

Instructor: Dr. A. Márcia Barbosa (Consultant, Portugal).
Schedule: January 15th-18th, 2024. Online live sessions on the 15th and 
18th of January, from 15:00 to 19:00 (Madrid time zone).

Course webpage with more information: 
https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/ecology/environmental-variables-how-to-obtain-and-process-them-with-r/

Course overview:
Georeferenced maps of environmental variables are currently essential 
for a range of ecological and biogeographical analyses, from species 
distribution and ecological niche models to global biodiversity trends. 
Such maps are now widely available in multiple online sources, although 
they often need to be processed to become compatible with each other and 
with the remaining data in the analysis (e.g. species occurrence or 
abundance).
In this short course, we will use a range of tools to:
1) Import maps of climatic, topographic and anthropogenic variables from 
various sources into R (e.g. WorldClim, ENVIREM, CHELSA, AquaMaps, 
MARSPEC, Bio-ORACLE, SEDAC, CORINE)
2) Obtain the values of these variables for point locations (e.g. 
species occurrence sites, random background samples) and for polygons 
(e.g. grid cells, provinces and other spatial divisions
3) Try out different ways of converting categorical variables to 
continuous form, including proportions and distances
4) Adjust the spatial extent and resolution of different maps, so that 
they appropriately match each other as well as additional data in the 
analysis.
The course will be highly interactive and will include both theoretical 
and practical sessions. Participants are welcome to try working with 
variables of their own interest, although several illustrative examples 
will be provided too.

With best regards
Juanvi

-- 
Juan Vicente Bertó Mengual
Administration
Transmitting Science
www.transmittingscience.com

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