New Books Ftom GIS In Ecology: 'An Introduction To Integrating QGIS And R For Spatial Analysis' and ' An Introduction To Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) Using QGIS And R'

[GIS in Ecology]

GIS In Ecology is pleased to announce the publication of two new GIS workbooks specifically aimed at biologists who wish to learn how to use GIS in their research. They use biologist-friendly language throughout and use examples based on real biological data, and are companion volumes to ‘GIS For Biologists: A Practical Introduction For Undergraduates’ (ISBN: 978-1-909832-17-6; RRPL USD: 39.99; EU: 32.99; GBP: 24.99). These new workbooks are available from Amazon and from all other good bookshops. They are:

1. ‘An Introduction To Integrating QGIS And R For Spatial Analysis’ (ISBN: 978-1-909832-52-7; 136 pages; RRP: USD: 29.99; EU: 24.99; GBP: 19.99):

This workbook contains five exercises which demonstrate how to integrate QGIS and R to allow you to conduct high quality spatial analyses by accessing and combining the powerful mapping, data layer creation, editing and processing tools from QGIS and the equally powerful analytical tools from R. These exercises are based around data from a real biological field study and include: creating a GIS project to process your data and create a map suitable for publication; creating environmental raster data layers; linking environmental data to biological data and creating graphs from the resulting data set; and running statistical analyses (GLMs and GAMs) to investigate spatial relationships in this combined data set. Working through these exercises will help the user obtain experience in integrating QGIS and R, and provide them with the confidence to apply these skills to their own research. These exercises are presented in the same easy-to-follow flow diagram-based format used in ‘GIS For Biologists: A Practical Introduction For Undergraduates’, and they are accompanied by images which show the user how their spatial analysis project should look as they progress through the exercises.

An in-person training course based on this workbook will be held in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 7^th - 9^th April 2020. For more information on this course, visit http://gisinecology.com/an-introduction-to-integrating-qgis-gis-and-r-for-spatial-analysis/

2. ‘An Introduction To Species Distribution Modelling (SDM) Using QGIS And R’ (ISBN: 978-1-909832-22-0; RRP: ; 150 pages; RRP: USD: 29.99; EU: 24.99; GBP: 19.99):

This workbook contains five exercises which will introduce you to the basic spatial processing and analytical techniques required to create a biologically meaningful species distribution model (SDM). Taken together, these exercises allow you to work through an example of an SDM from processing your survey data and making raster data layers to environmental variables, through constructing an SDM, visualising its predicted spatial distribution and validating its predictive ability. Working through these exercises will help the user obtain experience in creating SDM using QGIS and R, and provide them with the confidence to apply these skills to their own research. These exercises are presented in the same easy-to-follow flow diagram-based format used in ‘GIS For Biologists: A Practical Introduction For Undergraduates’, and they are accompanied by images which show the user how their spatial analysis project should look as they progress through the exercises. NOTE: This is an updated version of ‘An Introduction To Using GIS In Marine Biology: Supplementary Workbook Three’.

An in-person training course based on this workbook will be held in Glasgow, Scotland on the 29^th and 30^th of January 2020. For more information on this course, visit http://gisinecology.com/an-introduction-to-species-distribution-modelling-in-the-marine-environment/