Contents

• Biotaphy Workshop Agenda
• Data
• Background
• Species Distribution Modeling (SDM)
• Macro-ecological Modeling
• Metacommunity Phylogenetic Analyses (MCPA)

Terminology used in Biotaphy and these documents are summarized in Terminology.

Biotaphy Workshop Agenda

2018 July 22, Rochester, MN

1. Introductions

2. Biotaphy overview
   • iDigBio, Lifemapper, Open Tree of Life
   • Linking dataspaces
   • Integration

3. Large-scale biodiversity analyses

4. Multi-species analyses
   • Macroecological analyses http://lifemapper.github.io/researcher/rad/
   • Presence Absence Matrix (PAM)
   • Hands on with PAM site statistics
   • Hands on with PAM scatter plots
   • Metacommunity Phylogenetics Analysis (MCPA) http://lifemapper.github.io/researcher/mcpa/
   • Hands on with output packages
5. Lifemapper BOOM
   • Large experiment submission demo
   • Global PAM / subsetting demo
6. Questions, Discussion, Hands on help

Data

Data available from download package

• Package contains:
  • papers: directory containing papers for statistics computed
  • outputs: directory containing three output packages for browsing

Background

For an overall understanding of geospatial data, read:

• Types of spatial data are summarized in spatial data

Species Distribution Modeling (SDM)

The potential distribution of individual species may be predicted using SDM tools:

• Overview of Species Distribution Modeling (SDM)
• Explore SDM data from the LM Library
• Request species SDMs through the website

Macro-ecological Modeling

Distributions of many species may be combined to look at biodiversity at landscape levels:

• Overview of Macro-ecological Modeling
• Request Macro-ecological Modeling using researcher-provided data.
• Data for multi-species exercises is available on the USB stick or from here.

Metacommunity Phylogenetic Analyses (MCPA)

Additional phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses can be performed with a phylogenetic (evolutionary) tree containing the same species and biogeographic maps of regions for which to compare species communities:

• Overview of MCPA
• Visualize and Explore Metacommunity Phylogenetic Analyses.
• Subset SDM for species