BIO3018F Ecology & Evolution

Lectures

PDFs of my lectures from this and previous years are available through the course GitHub repository in the folders labelled “lecture_pdfs_YEAR”.

This year’s lectures can also be viewed as HTML slides below:

1. Introduction to Measuring Biodiversity
2. Species Richness and Diversity: Alpha Diversity
3. Species Richness and Diversity: Beta Diversity
4. Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity
5. Traits, Trade-offs and Phylogeny
6. The Assembly of Diversity: Local Processes
7. The Assembly of Diversity Regional Processes
8. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
9. Remote Sensing of Biodiversity
10. Feedbacks in Ecology

• Independent project brief
• Intro to power analysis

Practicals by year

• 2025
• 2023

While the practicals have differed between years, you’re welcome to go through the older ones for ideas and inspiration.

I provide R code, which you can run on your own laptops if you have R installed (and it helps to have RStudio or similar). Alternatively, you can sign up for an account on Posit Cloud, which allows you to run the code on a cloud machine from your internet browser. Make sure to use your university email address as it allows you more free resources.