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PFTC Teaching Material
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The PFTC model
Pre-course
Plan
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Plan initial logistics
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Selecting students
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Contingency planning
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Pre-course expectations survey
Design
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Student pre-course preparation
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Data sharing agreement
Field course
Collect
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Collect real data
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First days of the course
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Systematic data collection
10
Problem solving
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Herbarium vouchers
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Peer learning and certification
13
The trait wheel
Digitize, import, clean, and process
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Reproducible workflows, version control
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Code based scripts
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Quality control
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Data curation
Analyse
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Plant community composition data
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Plant functional trait data
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Bootstrapping trait data
Document
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Data documentation
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Well commented code
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Last days of the course
Post-course
Communicate
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Course evaluation
25
Papers
Archive
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Open data
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Working with PFTC data
Find & Reuse
28
Re-use
Other
29
Additional activities
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Networking
31
Seminar series
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Dissemination of open science
33
Learning outcomes
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Collaboration skills
Course output
35
Course output
Study systems
36
Alpine ecosystems
37
Three-D project
38
INCLINE project
Field course
Document
Document
Write the methods and the data dictionary.
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Bootstrapping trait data
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Data documentation