{"id":16,"date":"2015-07-30T17:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T17:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/?page_id=16"},"modified":"2021-07-01T17:30:58","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T17:30:58","slug":"recent-and-ongoing-research-in-anderson-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This is the website\/blog for the Anderson Laboratory at Valdosta State University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We study the geographic, ecological, and microevolutionary processes that drive the spatial distribution of genes, individuals, and species.<\/li>\n<li>Many of the projects we work on address fundamental questions in ecology and microevolution, and have important implications for conservation and species management.<\/li>\n<li>Our primary domain is the natural sciences but we approach many problems with a toolkit from statistical geography and geostatistics.<\/li>\n<li><em>Point pattern analysis<\/em> has been a hot topic in the lab; many current projects in the lab involve correcting for inhomogeneity in tests of dispersion and co-dispersion of point processes.<\/li>\n<li>Our\u00a0 methodological approach is integrative: many of our projects involve field work, genetic marker analysis, and computational biology.<\/li>\n<li>There is a strong emphasis in the lab on statistical programming (in R and Python). Many of the analyses we conduct require customized data pipelines and functions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Explore the tabs for lab\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/news\/\">NEWS<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and other topics, such as the great\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/people\/\"><strong>PEOPLE<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 (past and present) that have worked in the Anderson Lab.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the regionally relevant\u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/current-projects\/\">RESEARCH<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0that we are doing.<\/p>\n<p>If you are feeling aggressive, nerd out with our blog on point pattern analysis in R.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_528\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2019\/07\/Fig2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"size-large wp-image-528\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2019\/07\/Fig2-644x938.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2019\/07\/Fig2-644x938.png 644w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2019\/07\/Fig2-206x300.png 206w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2019\/07\/Fig2-768x1119.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/andersonlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2019\/07\/Fig2.png 1091w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Surfaces used as predictors of the intensity of a plant (cocoplum): (a) kernel smoothed intensity surface (in points per kilometer) for gopher tortoise burrows (white dots), (b) areas inside (= 1; orange) and outside (= 0; purple) of saw palmetto patches, and (c) distance (in meters) from gopher tortoise movement trails. The locations of cocoplum bushes (green dots) are superimposed on each surface. (From <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/aobpla\/article\/12\/4\/plaa024\/5860157\">Hanish et al<\/a>. 2020)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the website\/blog for the Anderson Laboratory at Valdosta State University. We study the geographic, ecological, and microevolutionary processes that drive the spatial distribution of genes, individuals, and species. 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