February 2012 – Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) with Jane Elith

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Dr Jane Elith and Dr Joanne Potts of University of Melbourne (Australia) led our third international workshop, which featured the use of R packages to prepare data sets and generation of models using both MaxEnt and regression methods, including Boosted Regression Trees (BRT). The 30 participants were mostly from Malaysian conservation NGOs, universities and government agencies, […]

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March 2011 – Wildlife density estimation with Spatially Explicit Capture-Recapture (SECR) with Murray Efford

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For our second international workshop, we invited Dr Murray Efford of the University of Otago (NZ) to join us in KL. Murray is the author of program DENSITY and the ‘secr’ package for R software. He introduced the theory of SECR as well as showing participants how to use his ‘products’. There was also a brief discussion

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March 2010 – Modeling Patterns and Dynamics of Species Occurrence with Darryl MacKenzie

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For our first international workshop in Malaysia, we invited Darryl MacKenzie of Proteus Wildlife Research Consultants to present the latest methods for modeling patterns and dynamics of species occurrence in a landscape while accounting for the imperfect detection of the species. Participants were introduced to the PRESENCE software package through worked examples, as well as some analyses

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