- Corsi di Laurea Magistrale
- Master's Degree in COASTAL AND MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
- LABORATORY OF ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
LABORATORY OF ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
- Teaching in italian
- LABORATORY OF ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
- Teaching
- LABORATORY OF ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS
- Subject area
- BIO/07
- Reference degree course
- COASTAL AND MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY
- Course type
- Master's Degree
- Credits
- 10.0
- Teaching hours
- Frontal Hours: 80.0
- Academic year
- 2024/2025
- Year taught
- 2025/2026
- Course year
- 2
- Language
- ENGLISH
- Curriculum
- Curriculum E-Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sciences
Teaching description
Fundamentals of ecology; Basic computer knowledge; Basic statistical knowledge
The course activities are based on the use of the R language to access, format, analize, and visualize ecological data and the integration between R and Markdown for the visualization of scientific reports
Practical laboratory course introducing and implementing the use of IT tools for the analysis and representation of ecological data.
Laboratory activities during which the students will be tutored in the use of R codes provided by the lecturer
Final exam consisting in the creation of IT tools for the analysis and visualization of ecological data
Download of an ecological dataset from an online repository; data import/export in .CSV and in other common formats; data visualization using basic and advanced graphical tools in R; data augmentation by integration with information from online repositories such as FishBase; data geo-referencing and implementation of the dataset within a GIS-based context; univariate statistical analysis and introduction to exploratory multivariate approaches; use of Markdown for the creation and visualization of a scientific report
No specific textbooks are required
Semester
Exam type
Compulsory
Type of assessment
Oral - Final grade
Course timetable
https://easyroom.unisalento.it/Orario