Quantitative Analyses in Ecology and Evolution

The course presents various methods of statistical analyses of biological data, focusing particularly on the relationships between study design and statistical tools, and on the interpretation and presentation of statistical analyses in a biological context. The course comprises lectures, exercises and some discussions based on scientific literature. During the exercises, students analyze data from studies in ecology and evolutionary biology using the statistical software R. The statistical models used during the course are: linear models, generalized linear models, mixed-effects models. The compulsory report consists of analyzing data, interpreting and presenting the results of studies in evolutionary ecology.