Introduction to Functional Ecology in R

Master FBE · Université de Toulouse · CRBE

📖 Background reading — before Session 1

Basics in R

Introduction to R syntax: objects, vectors, data frames, functions, loops and base plots. No prior programming knowledge required.

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Basics in community ecology

Species diversity, community matrices, beta diversity, ordination and the link between species composition and environmental gradients.

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Basics in functional diversity

Functional traits, trait-based approaches, CWM, functional diversity indices (FRic, FEve, FDiv, FDis) and the TPD framework.

Course schedule, learning objectives, and evaluation criteria.

Documents

Lecture presentations for each session of the course.

Full course

Annotated R scripts and exercises for each practical session.

Exercise PDFs

Datasets and R scripts for each group (one zip per group).

Data + R scripts (1 zip / group)

Submit your results

Upload your R script or output file for grading. Accepted formats: .R, .Rmd, .html, .pdf, .zip (max 10 MB).