Basic methods of explorative statistics and adequate application of statistical tests relevant to ecological data.
To learn, interpret and apply methods of habitat modelling
To understand the fundamentals of spatial explicit analysis of species-environment relationships as well as the fundamentals of spatial prediction of environmental requirements in species
To adequately analyse measured and observed spatial data applying methods of spatial statistics and geostatistics, respectively
To learn and to understand relevant methods of multivariate analysis of vegetation data
To be able to interpret and to assess the results obtained as well as the relevant literature
To be able to apply the treated methods independently
To learn and to improve skills in using the statistics software R
