"Analysis of human tree selection behaviour". Lectures at Göttingen University, Germany, 19 - 21 June 2014.

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Tree location map of Clocaenog plot 6. Orange: Japanese larch (Larix kaempferi (Lamb.) Carr.), Olive: Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.), Maroon: Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia L.), White: other species (including Scots pine, lodgepole pine, Norway spruce, sessile oak, ash, birch, willow and holly). The size of the circles are scaled by stem diameter at 1.3 m above ground level. The map was prepared with the R script TreeDiversityIndices.R‎ in conjunction with the spatstat package.

Here you can find some material relating to the lectures.

Introduction to R (19.06.2014)

• Guide RguideAp.pdf
• R code and data files InitialR.zip‎

Lectures on tree selection behaviour (20.06.2014)

• Handout part 1 ExperimentalSilviculture02H1.pdf
• Handout part 2 ExperimentalSilviculture02H2.pdf
• Handout part 3 ExperimentalSilviculture02H3.pdf
• Handout part 4 ExperimentalSilviculture02H4.pdf
• R code and data files MarteloscopeR.zip

Additional material

• Article on using marteloscopes for training‎
• Blog of a test person participating in a marteloscope‎