This repository contains R scripts of the Monitoring Ecosystem Changes and Functioning course 🎓
Professor: Duccio Rocchini 🤘
University: Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna 🏫
Degree Program: Master of Science in Sciences and Management of Nature
Curriculum: Global Change Ecology & Sustainable Development Goals
Topics covered in the scripts are following
1. R (intro)
Introduction to the R Software and the Free and Open Source philosophy: how to deal with R making your first code!
2. Spatial R
Introduction to the R Software and the Free and Open Source philosophy: how to deal with R making your first code!
3. Point Patterns Analysis
Spatial statistics: deriving continuous maps from in-situ data, principles of autocorrelation and spatial interpolation
4. Multivariate analysis in R
Population and community monitoring
5. Remote sensing in R
Remote sensing: performing amazing spatio-temporal monitoring with satellite data at global scales
Geographical data and reference systems: how to deal with the spatial reference of geographical data
6. Spatial statistics: let's analyse spatial data from the students' theses!
Spatial statistics: deriving continuous maps from in-situ data, principles of autocorrelation and spatial interpolation
7. Multitemporal analysis (e.g. NO2 before and after covid-19, indicators of global change - decrease in snow cover, deforestation)
Multitemporal analysis: monitoring change in time
8. Species Distribution Modelling
Species distribution modelling: modelling the main drivers shaping species distributions