mo_overview.Rmd

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# Learning objectives
After the end of this day, you will be able to 

1. Identify the primary public source to obtain different types of biodiversity data

2. Describe the structure, strengths and weaknesses of three major biodiversity databases to students and collaborators

3. Obtain data on species geographic occurrences, fossil occurrences and information on species conservation status in a reproducible and documented way using R.

# Detailed schedule
### Lectures (live)

13:00 - 13:30h 
  - Welcome & Introduction

13:30 - 15:00 
  - Lecture "Recent developments in big data biogeography"

15:00 - 15:30 
  - Discussion and submission of student projects

15:30 - 16:15 
  - Lecture & Hand-on Biodiversity databases

16:15 - 17:00
  - Hands-on "Obtaining biodiversity data in R" 

### Exercises (asynchronous):

1. Help with software set up

2. Obtaining data from GBIF in R

3. Obtaining data from PaleoDB in R

4. Obtaining data from the IUCN red list in R

# Exercise outcome
A the end of this day, you will have produced the following files for your group of interest, which you will use during the exercises during the next days:

1. A .csv file with species geographic occurrences of species

2. A .csv file with fossil occurrences

3. A .csv files of species conservation status from IUCN.