Week 15: Synthesis: Biodiversity Under Environmental Change¶

Core Questions¶

• How can spatial biodiversity analysis support inference about environmental change?
• How should maps, models, uncertainty, and ecological interpretation be communicated?
• What are the main limitations of the final analysis?

Concepts¶

• Biodiversity observations.
• Spatial processing.
• Environmental covariates.
• Spatial analysis.
• Statistical and machine-learning models.
• Spatial prediction.
• Uncertainty.
• Map and figure design.
• Ecological interpretation and limitations.

Python Tools¶

• Full course stack.

Applied Lab¶

Students finalize project reports and presentations around ecological question, spatial data, methods, results, model evaluation, spatial uncertainty, ecological interpretation, and limitations.

Deliverable¶

Submit the final project report, reproducible analysis materials, and presentation slides.