
General Methadology for Instructors and TAs
Exercise 5: Similarity of Home Gardens
Module 5: Community Ecology: An Introduction to the Players and How to Measure Communities
- Background Lecture:
- Characteristics for describing communities
- Methods for estimating beta diversity
- Multivariate analysis (classification and ordination)
- Activities in the experiment:
- Establish sampling plots
- Collect data on diversity (species richness and types of species )in the plots
- Calculate similarity coefficients
- Run simple multivariate analysis (Cluster analysis)
- Hypotheses to test
- Independent variables in the experiment
- Dependent variables that they could use in their experimental design.
- Student evaluation
- Based on presentation of results (written and oral)
- Preparation notes
- Find field sites in MST areas with different types of crops