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<h1 id="landscape-ecology-labs">Landscape Ecology Labs</h1>
<p>These Landscape Ecology labs were taught winter quarter 2015 at the <a href="http://www.bren.ucsb.edu">Bren School, UCSB</a>. Originally posted in a private online courseware GauchoSpace. Quickly posting this content for <a href="http://www.neoninc.org/updates-events/events/hackathon-spatio-temporal-data-lesson-building">NEON spatio-temporal data hackathon</a>.</p>
<p>For an overview of the course, see the <a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/raw/gh-pages/syllabus.pdf">syllabus</a>.</p>
<h2 id="labs">Labs</h2>
<p>Used Rmarkdown to weave instructions with data preparation for various external software and post-process outputs into tables and visualizations.</p>
<p><strong>Instructions</strong>. Per lab (eg <code>lab2</code>), download <code>lab*.zip</code> and extract. It will extract to a folder with the same name (eg <code>lab2_scale.zip</code> to folder <code>lab2_scale</code>). Download the other lab files, especially <code>lab*.html</code> and <code>lab*.Rmd</code>, into this same extracted folder. You can most easily read the instructions in <code>lab*.html</code>. Except for the first lab, you will edit the <code>lab*.Rmd</code> in <a href="https://www.rstudio.com/">RStudio</a> and run code to prepare the data and process outputs.</p>
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<li><p><strong>Introduction</strong>: Touring Landcover using ArcGIS</p>
<p><img src="lab1_thumb.png" alt="lab1_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab1_intro.zip">lab1_intro.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab1_instructions.docx">lab1_instructions.docx</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab1_gis-primer.pptx">lab1_gis-primer.pptx</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab1_introduction.pptx">lab1_introduction.pptx</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Scale</strong>: Quantifying Landcover Changes in Time and Space using R</p>
<p><img src="lab2_thumb.png" alt="lab2_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab2_scale.zip">lab2_scale.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/blob/gh-pages/lab2.Rmd">lab2.Rmd</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab2.html">lab2.html</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Agents</strong>: Physical Controls on Vegetation using ArcGIS</p>
<p><img src="lab3_thumb.png" alt="lab3_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab3_agents.zip">lab3_agents.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/blob/gh-pages/lab3.Rmd">lab3.Rmd</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab3.html">lab3.html</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Metrics</strong>: Measuring edge effects in the landscape using FragStats</p>
<p><img src="lab4_thumb.png" alt="lab4_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab4_metrics.zip">lab4_metrics.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/blob/gh-pages/lab4.Rmd">lab4.Rmd</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab4.html">lab4.html</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Disturbance</strong>: Simulating fire regimes on forests using LANDIS</p>
<p><img src="lab5_thumb.png" alt="lab5_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab5_disturbance.zip">lab5_disturbance.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/blob/gh-pages/lab5.Rmd">lab5.Rmd</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab5.html">lab5.html</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Species</strong>: Species distribution modeling using Maxent</p>
<p><img src="lab6_thumb.png" alt="lab6_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab6_species.zip">lab6_species.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/blob/gh-pages/lab6.Rmd">lab6.Rmd</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab6.html">lab6.html</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Connectivity</strong>: Connectivity modeling using Circuitscape</p>
<p><img src="lab7_thumb.png" alt="lab7_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab7_connectivity.zip">lab7_connectivity.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/blob/gh-pages/lab7.Rmd">lab7.Rmd</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab7.html">lab7.html</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Communities</strong>: Quantifying species diversity using Vegan in R</p>
<p><img src="lab8_thumb.png" alt="lab8_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab8_communities.zip">lab8_communities.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/blob/gh-pages/lab8.Rmd">lab8.Rmd</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab8.html">lab8.html</a></li>
</ul></li>
<li><p><strong>Planning</strong>: Conservation planning using Marxan</p>
<p><img src="lab9_thumb.png" alt="lab9_thumb.png" /></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="lab9_planning.zip">lab9_planning.zip</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/bbest/landscape-ecology-labs/blob/gh-pages/lab9.Rmd">lab9.Rmd</a><br /></li>
<li><a href="lab9.html">lab9.html</a></li>
</ul></li>
</ol>
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