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title: "Welcome"
author: Luis Valente, Joshua W. Lambert
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Welcome to the DAISIE computer practical of the Island Biology course. Here you will find the material to learn how to use the DAISIE ecosystem of R packages to analyse the ecology and evolution of island communities. These tools have been developed to answer research questions in island biogeography and macroevolution. We will apply them to a case study of a group of beetles from the Caribbean islands.

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