Moderator:  Dr A. Márcia BarbosaDatesDay 1:  Tuesday, February 16, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 2:  Wednesday, February 17, 14:00-16:30 UTCDescription:Species have continually changing distributions, and they occur with varying frequency across space. Categorical occurrence maps, whether observed or model-derived, are thus incomplete and oversimplified representations of species’ actual distributions. Moreover, categorical occurrence derived from model predictions normally relies [...]

Moderator:  Dr A. Márcia Barbosa Dates:Day 1:  Tuesday, December 15, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 2:  Wednesday, December 16, 14:00-16:30 UTCDay 3:  Thursday, December 17, 14:00-16:30 UTC Description:Bayesian Additive Regression Trees (BART) are a powerful machine learning technique with very promising applications in ecology and biogeography in general, and in species distribution modelling (SDM) in particular. BART [...]

Moderator:  Dr. Nicholas J. Gotelli Dates Day 1:  Wednesday, October 14, 14:00-16:00 UTC + 17:00–19:00 UTC Day 2:  Thursday, October 15, 14:00-16:00 UTC Description: Most researchers know how to write a script of computer code to execute a relatively simple set of instructions. But this kind of coding quickly becomes slow, inefficient, and not [...]