Contents

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

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

Lifemapper Workshop Agenda

2018 May 4, NCHC, Hsinchu, Taiwan

1. Introductions
2. Lifemapper overview

3. Single species analysis

   • Species Distribution Modeling (SDM)
   • Spatial Data
   • Browse Taiwan data library (hands-on)
   • Submit SDM experiment (hands-on)

4. Multi-species analyses

   • Macroecological analyses
   • Submit multi-species request (hands-on)
   • Metacommunity Phylogenetic Analyses (MCPA)
   • MCPA (hands-on)
5. Researcher tools
6. Questions, Discussion, Hands-on help

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

• Two subsets are available from the USB drive or for download:

  • Rubiaceae
  • Geometridae