Theories and Methods in Spatial Community Modelling WORKSHOP PROGRAM 21.04.2015 Day Time 9:30-9:50 9:50-10:00 10:10-11:00 11:00-12:30 12:30-14:00 14:00-15:30 15:30-16:00 16:00-18:00 22.04.2015 23.04.2015 Lecturer Registration Welcome and Introduction Theories and Methods in Spatial Community Modelling: an overview Species Source Pools: relevance and implications for analyses of species assemblages Lunch Evolutionary aspects of community assembly Coffee break PRACTICALS: Considering phylogenetic information in the analysis of species traits data with the adephylo package A. Guisan M. D’Amen C. Rahbek O. Hardy S. Dray P. Peres-Neto 12:30-14:00 14:00-15:30 15:30-16:00 16:00-18:00 19:30 Analytical challenges and general solutions to modelling metacommunities: local environment, connectivity and missing predictors Coffee break Using functional and phylogenetic information to disentangle community assembly processes - concepts, methods and prospects Lunch Community Assembly by Trait Selection Coffee break PRACTICALS: MAXENT model SOCIAL DINNER 9:00- 10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-12:30 12:30-14:00 14:00-15:30 15:30-16:00 16:00-18:00 Forest Dynamic models Coffee break Modelling biotic interactions: from species to networks Lunch The past, present, and future of null model analysis Coffee break PRACTICALS: EcoSimR N. Zimmermann 9:00- 10:30 K. Mokany 10:30-11:00 11:00-13:00 13:00-14:30 14:30-16:00 16:00-16:30 Incorporating processes into biodiversity projections through metacommunity modelling Coffee break PRACTICALS: Modelling and analysing compositional turnover with GDM Lunch Integrative framework for applied compositional-turnover modelling Coffee break 16:30-18:00 Round Table & Conclusions A. Guisan & M. D’Amen 9:00- 10:30 24.04.2015 Talk title 10:30-11:00 11:00-12:30 ORGANIZERS: M.D’AMEN & A. GUISAN ECOSPAT GROUP http://www.unil.ch/ecospat/ W. Thuiller B. Shipley B. Shipley L. Pellissier N. Gotelli N. Gotelli K. Mokany S. Ferrier