Resilience is a central concept in ecological theory, and diverse approaches have been developed to quantify it on empirically-collected data. Quantifying demographic resilience, a recently formally defined concept, is at least as important because many management actions target the population level of organization.
In this course, after briefly learning about the historical development of stability concepts in the field of community ecology, participants will be introduced to the demographic resilience framework and the different metrics that are used to quantify it. We will first demonstrate the use of the currently prevalent time-invariant approach and next present the R package we have developed for applying the time-varying approach.
Our workshop aims at students and early-career scientists (PhDs, early-career post-docs) who work in the field of population ecology and are interested in quantifying population stability. The workshop will be organised in lecture sessions, practical walk-throughs and hands-on exercises in R. The workshop also includes group work, based on the data brought by participants or supplied by us.
The participants are expected to have background in population ecology (e.g. relevant Bachelor or Master level). The method for quantifying demographic resilience builds on matrix population models (MPM) and therefore previous background on MPM and experience working with them in R is required. Basic knowledge and experience working with R is a prerequisite. We strongly encourage participants to use RStudio.
Lecturers:
Julie Louvrier, Viktoriia Radchuk, Adam Clark
Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research & Institute of Biology, University of Graz, Graz, Austria
For more info please see below:
https://www.leibniz-izw-akademie.com/seminare/demographic-resilience-workshop-2024
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