biodiv-patterns-course

Lecture notes and materials for our course on biodiversity patterns

1. Obtain materials

You can either download the materials as a zip archive or use git to clone the materials.

I. Download the repo as a zip archive

1. Click on the green "Clone or download" button
2. Click on "Download ZIP"
3. Go to Downloads of your browser
4. Unzip the archive biodiv-patterns-course-master.zip, .e.g., on the terminal:

$ unzip biodiv-patterns-course-master.zip

II. Clone the repository

0. Install git if needed
1. Open a terminal or your favorite git client
2. Clone the repository by:

$ git clone https://github.com/chase-lab/biodiv-patterns-course.git

3. Navigate to the cloned directory in your file browser

2. Structure of the materials

1. The materials cover two weeks
2. The first week is contained in the directory week_1 and the second week in week_2.
3. Each weekday is a subdirectory of the week, i.e. Monday corresponds to 1_monday, Tuesday to 2_tuesday, and so forth.
4. Such a subdirectory for a weekday has
   • a README.md describing the topics and the lectures of that day
   • presentations as pptx, pdf, website, etc.
   • source code in R which helps you to understand how to implement these topics
   • reading materials: articles, blogposts, cheatsheets.