Por Stephanie Carlson (Associate Professor, UC-Berkeley).
Por Vítor Sousa (cE3c Researcher - Evolutionary Genetics Group).
Por Marco Girardello (Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Aarhus - Denmark).
Por Inês Teixeira do Rosário (Post-Doc Researcher at cE3c (Conservation Ecology Group).
“Geography and major host evolutionary transitions shape the resource use of plant parasites” da autoria de Joaquín Calatayud, José Luis Hórreo, Jaime Madrigal-González, Alain Migeon, Miguel Á. Rodríguez, Sara Magalhães e Joaquín Horta salienta a necessidade de estudos mais globais em Ecologia.
Sara Magalhães
Assistant Professor, Evolutionary Ecology Group ‐ cE3c
During recent decades we have witnessed a great development of bioinformatics that has led to the accumulation of a huge amount of biological information. The Bioinformatics and computational Biology aim at dealing with this large volume of data so that biological information can be extracted, generating scientific knowledge. Handling and mining big data is currently a subject of great interest and importance.
With this course, we aim at providing the participants with the basics of lichen biology and ecology, biomonitoring and data analysis methods to allow the use of lichens for the interpretation of the environmental conditions and the development of a responsible scientific-based environmental management.
Phylogeography is one of the recent scientific areas emergent from the dissemination of highthrouput technologies of sequencing starting in the 90’s of the XXth century, with the consequent development of intra-specific genetic variance analysis and its geographic distribution. The analysis of phylogeographic data allows to study the processes of population differentiation and the underlying evolutionary and demographic history. Applications of this body of knowledge go from conservation genetics to the study of the evolution of species and populations.
This course offers an overview of the different ways to measure biodiversity, and provides tips for the stratification of primary biodiversity data and the construction of variables that describe its various facets. It also includes an in-depth review of the different types of data used to measure biodiversity and their problems and limitations.
