Advanced Reptile Taxonomy Training
This seven-day training will be held at RCCC UI (PAU building fl. 8,5) and LIPI Bogor from 9.00 to 17.00. This training is open for the participants who have completed the Basic Reptile Taxonomy course at RCCC UI. It will be covering the topics of:
- Research project on focal taxa (individual)
- Two-day lab work at LIPI Bogor
- Morphometric analysis (software)
- Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
- Research paper writing
- Final research manuscript submit to a journal
- Public research article (compulsory)
Basic Reptile Taxonomy Training
RCCC UI hereby presents the training on reptile taxonomy with an expert on herpetology Thasun Amarasinghe. He is also an editor-in-chief of Taprobanica, the journal of Asian biodiversity. There are two levels of training: (1) Basic and (2) Advanced.
(1) Basics of Reptile Taxonomy (September 2014)
This two-day training will be held at RCCC UI (PAU building fl. 8,5) on Saturday and Sunday from 9.00 to 17.00. This training is open (no pre-requirements) for any Indonesian (including undergraduates, , naturalists, researchers, NGOs, etc.) who is interested in taxonomy and its applications. It will be covering the topics of:
- Introduction to taxonomy
- Importance of type specimens
- Scale morphology of reptiles
- Morphometric and meristic characters
- Keys and identification
- Reading taxonomic descriptions
- Introduction to The Code (ICZN)
- Taxonomic problems
- Practical (use of stereo microscope and vernier caliper)
- Practical test