"Analysis of human tree selection behaviour". Lectures at Göttingen University, Germany, 19 - 21 June 2014.
Natural and human disturbances are common and frequent features in forest ecosystems. Some of them even owe their existence and structure to the regular occurrence of disturbances. Given the comparatively long lifetime of managed and natural forests, disturbances are inevitable and both forest research and practice have to develop methods and strategies to come to terms with them.
Studying natural disturbances has a fairly long tradition in forest ecology, however, anthropogenic disturbances such as those caused by deliberate forest management and by accidental activities have so far received comparatively little attention and yet they often influence forest structures much more than natural disturbances and other processes. A new type of experiment, the marteloscope, has emerged to carry out research on human decision making and marking behaviour in forests. It complements existing types of experiments and can also be combined with computer experiments, that extend traditional field experiments and allow time-lapse analyses.
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
