Plant Functional Traits Course 5

The 5th International Plant Functional Traits Course will be held at Wayqecha, Peru 9-22 March 2020

Schedule for PFTC5 Lectures

Pre course lectures

January 23rd – Brian Enquist, Introduction to trait based ecology.Click here for lecture file . Click here to watch this lecture.

January 30th – Sean Michaletz, Introduction to leaf functional traits and leaf physiology. Click here for lecture file. Click here to watch this lecture.

Feb. 6th – Marc Macias-Fauria, Introduction to Remote sensing of plant functional traits. Click here for lecture file.

Feb 13th – Vigdis Vandvik, Climate change, gradients, and how Peru course fits in. Click here for lecture file. Click here to watch this lecture.

Feb 20th – Sandra Durán, Intro to carbon flux and ecosystem response to global change. Click here for lecture file. Click here to watch this lecture.

Feb 25th Imma Oliveras Introduction to fire ecology and the Puna ecosystem. Click here for lecture file.

Feb 27th Miles Silman Introduction to the natural history of Perú and the ABERG elevational gradient. Click here to watch part one of this lecture. Click here to watch second part of this lecture.

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 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.

How to connect to the lectures?

(i) All lectures will be given live on Thursday on the given date listed above (unless noted) at 8:30am Tucson time (7:30am Pacific Time; 10:30am East Coast/Peru Time; 3:30 PM London time; 4:30pm Bergen Norway time.

Lectures will be 30-40 minutes in length. We will have some time for a question and answer section after each lecture.

(ii) Join the lectures live remotely via Zoom. Connect online or via phone using the following links: https://arizona.zoom.us/j/111451073; Meeting ID: 111 451 073

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Dial by your location: +1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose); +1 646 876 9923 US (New York); +47 7349 4877 Norway; +47 2396 0588 Norway; +51 1 730 6777 Peru; +51 1 707 5788 Peru Meeting ID: 111 451 073; Find your local number: https://arizona.zoom.us/u/abqEIH5lFv

(iii) Watch these lectures on your own schedule. All lectures will be posted. A link to each lecture will be posted here. Stay tuned for more!

Join Zoom Meeting
https://arizona.zoom.us/j/111451073

Meeting ID: 111 451 073

One tap mobile
+16699006833,,111451073# US (San Jose)
+16468769923,,111451073# US (New York)

Dial by your location
+1 669 900 6833 US (San Jose)
+1 646 876 9923 US (New York)
+47 7349 4877 Norway
+47 2396 0588 Norway
+51 1 730 6777 Peru
+51 1 707 5788 Peru
Meeting ID: 111 451 073
Find your local number: https://arizona.zoom.us/u/abqEIH5lFv

Recorded Lectures:

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Additional Links:

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Photos from PFTC3, by Brian J. Enquist