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Please note, the lectures are given in Czech language. English version of the course can be requested in advance if there are at least 3 students.This course concerns basic overview of the computational methods in this field of ecology and evolutionary biology. Its major is the complex solution of the specific model problems using real datasets and a battery of evolutionary-ecological programs (usually free software).
Discussed topics include different approaches to morphometric data (including geometric morphometrics), allometric trends, reconstruction of phylogeny and ancestral traits, and interspecific comparative methods. Last update: JPROKOP (30.11.2006)
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Brown JH, West GB. (Eds.) 2000. Scaling in Biology. Oxford University Press. Harvey PH, Pagel MD. 1991. The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology. Oxford University Press. Zelditch, ML, Swiderski DL, Sheets HD, Fink WL. 2004. Geometric Morphometrics for biologists: a primer. Elsevier Academic Press. RMA ( ( (www.ams.reading.ac.uk/zoology/pagel/ Last update: EXNEROVA (18.04.2007)
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1) Phylogeny reconstruction - nongenetic data, mixture of genetic and nongenetic data (?total evidence" approach), tests of congruence among different datasets 2) Phylogenetic correlation of continuous traits, analysis of allometric trends within phylogenetic framework, independent contrasts 3) Optimalisation of discrete traits onto extant cladogram 4) Phylogenetic correlation of discrete traits - maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood method 5) Image processing and analyzing - dimensional (distance, angle, perimeter, area) measurements 6) Growth curves 7) Morphospace, multivariate statistical methods in morphometrics - primarily principal component analysis (PCA) and discriminant function analysis (DFA) 8) Tests of association between morphometric and geographic distances 9) Basics of geometric mophometrics - comparison with classical morphometrics, landmarks and criteria of their choosing, superimposition methods, thin plate method, PCA and DFA in geometric morphometrics
Last update: JPROKOP (24.04.2006)
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