BIOL 384  -  EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH IN BIOLOGY

St. Francis Xavier University (Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada) - January-April 2010


Professor: Dr. Ricardo A. Scrosati (Associate Professor & Canada Research Chair in Marine Ecology)
Office: BB 335-J
Phone: 867-5289
Research Laboratory: BB 427 (Marine Ecology Lab)
Email: rscrosat@stfx.ca


Lectures: BB 305 (F block)
Lab/Tutorials: BB 236 (G3-H3-J3 block)


Course description: click here.


Lecture Figures: click here.


Lecture on multivariate data analysis (PRIMER software): file #1 and file #2.


Guidelines for Literature Research Project: click here.



Papers for Discussion and Files for Statistical Exercises:

• 15 January (Scientific method - Laws in ecology)
  Underwood 1991  -  Colyvan & Guinzburg 2003  -  O'Hara 2005

• 22 January (Significance tests - Negative results)
  Buhl-Mortensen 1996  -  Browman 1999  -  Johnson 1999  -  O'Connor 2000

• 29 January (Confidence intervals)
  Wolfe & Hanley 2002

• 12 February (Multiple comparisons - Criticism of Bonferroni 'correction')
  Moran 2003

• 12 March (Repeated-measures ANOVA)
  Seaweed pictures
  Data and summary tables
  Data for one-way RM-ANOVA (SYSTAT-Windows file)
  Data for one-way RM-ANOVA (SYSTAT-Macintosh file)
  Data for two-way ANOVA with one RM factor (SYSTAT-Windows file)
  Data for two-way ANOVA with one RM factor (SYSTAT-Macintosh file)

• 19 March (Ricardo's Day)
  Scrosati & DeWreede 1997  -  Keppel & Scrosati 2004  -  Scrosati 2004
  Breceda, Ortiz & Scrosati 2005  -  Scrosati 2006(a)
  Scrosati 2006(b)  -  Scrosati & Heaven 2007
  Garbary, Miller, Scrosati, Kim & Schofield 2008  -  Heaven & Scrosati 2008
  Longtin & Scrosati 2009  -  Belt, Cole & Scrosati 2009
  Guidelines for Oral Presentation: click here.

• March (Simple linear regression - Pearson's correlation)
  Data and SYSTAT output (PDF file)

• March (Multiple linear regression)
  Data (SYSTAT-Windows file)
  Explanation of SYSTAT commands and outputs (PDF file)

• March (Hotelling's T² test - One-way MANOVA)
  Data for Hotelling's T² test (SYSTAT-Windows file)
  Data for one-way MANOVA (SYSTAT-Windows file)
  Explanation of SYSTAT commands and output for Hotelling's T² test (PDF file)
  Explanation of SYSTAT commands and output for one-way MANOVA (PDF file)

• March (Principal Components Analysis)
  Data for PCA (SYSTAT-Windows file)
  Explanation of SYSTAT commands and output for PCA (PDF file)

• April (BACI designs and beyond)
  Underwood 1994  -  Stewart-Oaten & Bence 2001