README.md

HBS-Seminar-2020

Description

This repository contains the scripts and the associated data needed for the four-day webinar entitled: "Diversity patterns of the Flora of Greece with applications in R" delivered under the auspices of the Hellenic Botanical Society.

Guidelines

All participants are encouraged to download (from the links provided in the respective folders) all the data needed for the practicals to be held during the webinar. Please note that the abiotic data may sum up to ca. 2 GB, so take good care that you have enough storage in your hard drive.

Prior to Friday's practicals, all participants should have installed all R packages needed henceforth (please check the "R package installation" R script in the Scripts folder).

Downloads

All download links for each instructor's practicals are available in the following folder path:

Data/Practicals/instructor_name/Description.md

Program

The webinar's program is as follows:

• Friday 13-11-2020

  • 13:00 - 16:00: Introduction to R, Part I (Install & Load R packages / Data import & Export) [Practical] by Dr. Danis Kiziridis
  • 17:00 - 20:00: Introduction to R, Part II (Basic statistical analyses / Data visualization) [Practical] by Dr. Danis Kiziridis

• Monday 16-11-2020

  • 09:00 - 12:00: Introduction to R, Part III (Advanced data visualization) [Practical] by Dr. Danis Kiziridis
  • 13:00 - 16:00: Databases and data-mining [Practical] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis
  • 17:00 - 20:00: Introduction to Spatial Data [Practical] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis

• Tuesday 17-11-2020

  • 09:00 - 12:00: Macroecological and biogeographical patterns [Lecture] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis
  • 13:00 - 15:00: Taxonomical diversity patterns [Practical] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis
  • 15:00 - 16:00: Phylogenetic diversity patterns, Part I [Practical] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis
  • 17:00 - 18:00: Phylogenetic diversity patterns, Part II [Practical] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis

• Wednesday 16-11-2020

  • 09:00 - 10:00: Flora of Greece [Lecture] by Prof. Panayotis Dimopoulos
  • 10:00 - 11:00: Extinction risk assessment [Lecture] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis
  • 11:00 - 12:00: Extinction risk assessment, Part I [Practical] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis
  • 13:00 - 16:00: Extinction risk assessment, Part II [Practical] by Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis

  Instructors

• Prof. Panayotis Dimopoulos

  

• Dr. Danis Kiziridis

  

• Dr. Konstantinos Kougioumoutzis