This course deals with how patterns of biological diversity changes over time and processes causing these changes. Focus will be on understanding micro- and macro-evolutionary processes, how these change species diversity and species distributions, and how to obtain knowledge of species histories. Emphasis will be placed on understanding methods used in analyses of micro- and macro-evolutionary diversification in time and space, and in particular coalescent theory as tool for understanding population genetic processes and inferring phylogenetic patterns.
This course is part of Nordic Master in Biodiversity and Systematics (http://www.nabismaster.org/) and is also offered to students at the Research School of Biosystematics (http://www.forbio.uio.no/).
The course is given the next time in the period 29. January and 8. of March 2024, it thus takes 6 weeks to finish and 10 ECTS is given to master students taking exam.
- Teacher: Fabian Kellner
- Teacher: Olena Meleshko
- Teacher: Hans Stenøien