Multivariate analysis of ecological communities in R with the VEGAN package (VGNR01)
https://www.prstatistics.com/course/multivariate-analysis-of-ecological- communities-in-r-with-the-vegan-package-vgnr01/ Instructors: Dr. Peter Solymos and Dr. Guillaume Blanchet When: 23rd - 27th April 2018 Where: SCENE filed station, Loch Lomond, Glasgow Intended Audience: Research postgraduates, practicing academics and primary investigators in spatial ecology and management and environmental professionals in government and industry. Course Overview: This 5-day course will cover the concepts, methods, and R tools that can be used to analyse community ecology data. The course will review data processing techniques relevant to multivariate data sets. We will cover diversity and null-model analysis, distance measures and distance based multivariate methods, clustering, classification, and dimension reduction techniques using the vegan R extension package. We will use real world data sets to motivate the analyses, e.g. describing patterns along environmental or anthropogenic disturbance gradients, quantifying the effects of continuous and discrete predictors, and making predictions based on multivariate model results. We will emphasize visualization and reproducible workflows. Modules will consist of introductory lectures, guided computer coding, and exercises for the participants. The course is intended for intermediate R users with interest in community ecology, especially in the fields of terrestrial and wetland ecology, microbial ecology, and natural resource management. Course syllabus: Monday 23rd – Classes from 08:30 to 16:30 Module 1: Introduction to community data analysis, basics of programming in R Module 2: Data processing (long and wide data representations, single and multiple table operations, data aggregation and transformation) Tuesday 24th – Classes from 08:30 to 16:30 Module 3: Diversity analysis, species-abundance distributions, null-model analysis Module 4: Distance measures and distance based methods (Mantel test, distance decay, etc.) Wednesday 25th – Classes from 08:30 to 16:30 Module 5: Hierarchical and nonhierarchical clustering and classification Module 6: Dispersion and permutational MANOVA Thursday 26th – Classes from 08:30 to 16:30 Module 7: Response curves, ordination (correspondence analysis, nonmetric scaling, constrained ordination). Module 8: Fitting environmental variables to ordination, permutation based testing of the significance of constraints. 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