SEE-U 2000: Atlantic Forest - Module 05:Exercise 05

## General Methadology for Instructors and TAs

## Exercise 5: Similarity of Home Gardens
Module 5: Community Ecology: An Introduction to the Players and How to Measure Communities

1. Background Lecture:
   - Characteristics for describing communities
   - Methods for estimating beta diversity
   - Multivariate analysis (classification and ordination)
2. Activities in the experiment:
   - Establish sampling plots
   - Collect data on diversity (species richness and types of species )in the plots
   - Calculate similarity coefficients
   - Run simple multivariate analysis (Cluster analysis)
3. Hypotheses to test
4. Independent variables in the experiment
5. Dependent variables that they could use in their experimental design.
6. Student evaluation
   - Based on presentation of results (written and oral)
7. Preparation notes
   - Find field sites in MST areas with different types of crops