Evolução fenotípica e Métodos Filogenéticos Comparativos
Graduate course given annually at the Ecology and Conservation (UFMS) grad course at Campo Grande. The whole course is available on Moodle. Contact me if you're interested in any material. Here is a mind map with a summary
of the main methods
Graduate course given annually at the Ecology and Conservation (UFMS) grad course at Campo Grande. The whole course is available on Moodle. Contact me if you're interested in any material. Here is a mind map with a summary
of the main methods
[2012] Mendeley Demo at Universidade Federal de Goiás
Download here the presentation with screenshots and tutorials
[2011] Ecological Statistics using R [Tópicos em Biologia Animal – Estatística aplicada à ecologia usando o R]
This was a two-week corse for graduate students in Animal Biology at UNESP (São Paulo State University) in collaboration with Thiago Gonçalves-Souza and Fernando R. Silva. We intended to introduce Generalized Linear Models, main multivariate analysis and other ecological methods using R as a plataform for data analysis.
Class Slides || Course book || Data sets for exercises || R Scripts || R scripts with response to exercises
Main literature recommended and links to web pages
-Site com aulas sobre estatística uni e multivariada com exemplos no R
-Site do pacote labdsv com várias páginas de teoria e análises
Class Slides || Course book || Data sets for exercises || R Scripts || R scripts with response to exercises
Main literature recommended and links to web pages
-Site com aulas sobre estatística uni e multivariada com exemplos no R
-Site do pacote labdsv com várias páginas de teoria e análises
Internet Resources on Statistics

Interactive Statistical Calculation NCEAS R Programming
R Graph Gallery R Labs For ecologists
Wolfram RSeek
Paul Johnson's R-tips John Fox page
[2009] Techniques for Sampling Vertebrates [in Portuguese]
This short-corse (4 hours) was intended to undergraduate students at UNESP (São Paulo State University). It was given as a pre-meeting corse at the 4th Simpósio de Biologia Animal, a meeting of the Post-Graduate program at UNESP. Ricardo Brassaloti and I summarized all field sampling techniques commonly applied to the four classes of vertebrates.
Class Slides
Recommended bibliography
Colwell, R. K., & Coddington, J. A. 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B) 345:101-118. Download pdf.
Dias, S.C. 2004. Planejando estudos de diversidade e riqueza: uma abordagem para estudantes de graduação. Acta Scientiarum 26: 373-9. Download pdf.
Gotelli, N., and Colwell, R. K. 2001. Quantifying biodiversity: Procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecology Letters 4:379-391. Download pdf.
Martins, F.R. & Santos, F.A.M. 1999.Técnicas usuais de estimativa da biodiversidade. Holos (ed. Especial):236- 267. Download pdf
Santos, A.J. 2003. Estimativas de riqueza em espécies. In: Cullen Jr., L. et al. (Org.). Métodos de estudo em biologia da conservação e manejo da vida silvestre. Curitiba: Ed. UFPR e Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza, p. 19-41.
Sutherland, W.J. (Ed.). 2006. Ecological census techniques: a handbook. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.
Class Slides
Recommended bibliography
Colwell, R. K., & Coddington, J. A. 1994. Estimating terrestrial biodiversity through extrapolation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (Series B) 345:101-118. Download pdf.
Dias, S.C. 2004. Planejando estudos de diversidade e riqueza: uma abordagem para estudantes de graduação. Acta Scientiarum 26: 373-9. Download pdf.
Gotelli, N., and Colwell, R. K. 2001. Quantifying biodiversity: Procedures and pitfalls in the measurement and comparison of species richness. Ecology Letters 4:379-391. Download pdf.
Martins, F.R. & Santos, F.A.M. 1999.Técnicas usuais de estimativa da biodiversidade. Holos (ed. Especial):236- 267. Download pdf
Santos, A.J. 2003. Estimativas de riqueza em espécies. In: Cullen Jr., L. et al. (Org.). Métodos de estudo em biologia da conservação e manejo da vida silvestre. Curitiba: Ed. UFPR e Fundação O Boticário de Proteção à Natureza, p. 19-41.
Sutherland, W.J. (Ed.). 2006. Ecological census techniques: a handbook. 2nd Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press.