Course lectures

• January 23rd – Brian Enquist, Introduction to trait based ecology.
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• January 30th – Sean Michaletz, Introduction to leaf functional traits and leaf physiology.
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• Feb. 6th – Marc Macias-Fauria, Introduction to Remote sensing of plant functional traits.
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• Feb 13th – Vigdis Vandvik, Climate change, gradients, and how Peru course fits in.
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• Feb 20th – Sandra Durán, Intro to carbon flux and ecosystem response to global change.
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• Feb 25th – Imma Oliveras, Introduction to fire ecology and the Puna ecosystem.
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• Feb 27th – Miles Silman, Introduction to the natural history of Perú and the ABERG elevational gradient.
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Course Lectures

• Vigdis Vandvik, Overview of the Plant Functional Trait Course and connections with grand challenges in trait-based ecology, climate change, and land use change. Click here for the lecture file.
• Brian Enquist, Online homework lecture – (1) Trait driver theory: A basis to integrate and scale from plant form, function and strategies to ecosystems worldwide – Click here for the lecture files.
  In person lecture, (2) #PlantBlindness: Discussion, why plants matter and why we study traits. Click here for the lecture file.
• March 10th - Dagmar Egelkraut, Climate change and novel interaction effects on alpine vegetation: a meta-study on global scale. Click here for the lecture file.
• March 10th - William Farfan-Rios, Climate change effects on Andean and Amazonian forests. Click here for the lecture file.
• March 10th, Ragnhild Gya, My PFTC story - Interspecific trait variability is important! Click here for the lecture file.
• March 19th – Brian Maitner, Introduction to coding: Trait distributions and learning to code via the psuedocode method. Click here to watch this lecture.
• March 20th – Aud Halbritter, Open Science for field data – data curation and validation in R. Click here for the lecture file. Click here to watch the lecture.
• March 20th – Julia Chacon, Introduction to R analyses for PFTC data. Click here to watch the lecture.
• March 22nd – Paul Efren Santos – Introduction to Tidyverse. Click here for the lecture slides. Github link https://github.com/PaulESantos/pftc5_tidy
• March 23rd – Sehoya Cotner – Low risk, high reward strategies for making your teaching more inclusive. Click here for the lecture file.
• March 25th – Marc Macias-Fauria Methods and results from spectral traits. Click here to watch the lecture. Click here for the lecture file.