Landscape Ecology Workshop: Introduction to Pattern, Scale and Landscape Modeling

19-23 March 2018

Laura Bosco, University of Bern (CH)

Dr. Samuel Cushman, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station Flagstaff (US)

Dr. Zaneta Kaszta, Wildlife Conservation Research, University of Oxford (UK)

Landscape ecology deals with the interaction of spatial patterns at multiple scales and ecological processes. The influences of spatial scale and pattern are fundamentally important to understanding ecological systems and predicting effects of global change on the biosphere.

This course will provide students with a theoretical and methodological introduction to landscape ecology, with focused training in the use and interpretation of a number of contemporary analytical methods and software tools in the field, including:

• introduction to Geographical Information Systems with QGIS
• landscape pattern analysis with FRAGSTATS
• multi-scale resource selection functions with R
• population connectivity modelling with UNICOR

University of Bern

2.5

Full attendance and active participation

!PREREQUISITE!

Background needed in: Basic R & GIS

When?
19-23 March 2018
09h30-13h00 & 14h00-17h30

Where?
University of Bern

Uni Tobler, Raum B -181, Länggassstrasse 49, 3012 Bern

IMPORTANT

Please bring your own laptops with installed:

- QGIS (Quantum GIS) OR if possible ArcGIS

- R

- Enthought Canopy python installation

- Fragstats

Questions?
Marta Bellone
@: [email protected]
Phone: +41 (0)26 300 88 91

Reimbursement:

PhD students of the DPEE are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class). Please send the original tickets along with the reimbursement form to:

 Marta Bellone
 Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution
 PER04 building
 University of Fribourg
 Rue Albert-Gockel, 3
 CH-1700 Fribourg

NEW from 2018: NO reimbursement of your meal expenses

Regarding reimbursement of accomodation, please contact the coordinator of the doctoral program (ecologie-evolution(at)cuso.ch) BEFORE the beginning of the course. NO reimbursement of accomodation without the agreement in advance of the course of the coordinator fo the doctoral program.

Priority is given to PhD students of the Doctoral program in Ecology and Evolution until March 4, 2018. After this deadline, first comes, first serves!

Through your myCUSO account!

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