Unlike most courses available, we include a practical section on project design and analyses. Participants learn about basic issues of adaptive management, project design and execution, analyses, review of basic statistics, and communication of results. Each day the participants conduct a field project that involves design and sampling methods for every taxa including plants, insects, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
Participants make observations, obtain data and analyze it, using basic statistics.
Analyses are carried out with basic hand calculators. Analyses of personal projects. Projects are analyzed in terms of theoretical framework, experimental and sampling design, analyses and communication. Participants receive feedback for their own project and learn about the most common flaws in project design. Towards the end of the course, participants integrate the four previous sections in the design of their own project.