Dear colleagues, Transmitting Science is offering a new edition of the online course "Functional trait diversity: calculating and interpreting a key component of biodiversity". Course webpage: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/ecology/functional-trait-diversity-calculating-and-interpreting-a-key-component-of-biodiversity/ This course is suitable for ecologists and evolutionary biologists that are interested in applying and interpreting indices of functional trait diversity and related metrics of community trait structure. We will consider and learn how to compute and interpret different metrics of trait dissimilarity among organisms, learn how to account for intraspecific trait variability and compute functional diversity at different scales (e.g. alpha and beta partitioning of diversity), among others. For questions, please contact us at courses@transmittingscience.com Best regards, Haris Haris Saslis, PhD Course Coordinator Transmitting Science www.transmittingscience.com [1] Links: [1] http://www.transmittingscience.com Haris Saslis - Transmitting Science (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)