Workshop Content

Overview

This workshop will help researchers better integrate ecological theory and data analysis into the study of plant-pollinator networks. Our focus will be on the statistical and mathematical tools needed to analyze and interpret these networks.
We’ll start big (covering the basics of network structure), go small (introducing concepts of model-fitting for quantifying pairwise interactions), and go big again (linking structure and interaction strengths to network stability). We’ll move between data processing, statistical methods, and mathematical theory, and will mix lectures, hands-on exercises, coding sessions, and group discussions.

We’d like participants to spend a bit of time before the workshop getting familiar with the basics of R and RStudio and ask that participants reserve a little time before the workshop to work through these “pre-work modules”.

Topics

• Prework - R and RStudio

  Before you arrive at RMBL. Tutorial on setting up R and Rstudio.

• Prework - R Data Basics

  Before you arrive at RMBL. Intro to data structures, help pages, and variable types in R.

• Networks

  Analysis of structure

• Model fitting

  Fitting models to data

• Dynamics

  Dynamics and stability

• Of Potential Interest

  Supplementary materials