Abstract

This tutorial is designed to guide you through the Ecoregionalization Galaxy workflow, demonstrating how to create a life traits ecoregionalization map from occurrences and environmental data using a boosted regression tree model for predictions.

About This Material

This is a Hands-on Tutorial from the GTN which is usable either for individual self-study, or as a teaching material in a classroom.

Questions this will address

• How to use the life traits ecoregionalization?
• How to construct ecoregions from occurrences species data and environmental data?

Learning Objectives

• Learning how to use the ecoregionalization workflow.
• Learning how to collect life traits informations from marine species occurences.
• Learning about boosted regression trees algorithm.
• Learning about Silhouette index and select an appropriate number of clusters.
• Learning about Clara clustering algorithm (PAM for large datasets)objectives.
• Create an ecoregionalization map from life traits data.