Hai Richard,
have a look at: Borcard, Daniel, Francois Gillet, and Pierre Legendre. /Numerical Ecology with R (Use R)/. 1st Edition. Springer, 2011. which is the little brother to Legendre's Numerical Ecology, applying these methods with R. A very nice freely available book using R is: Kindt, Roeland, and Richard Coe. /Tree Diversity Analysis: [a Manual and Software for Common Statistical Methods for Ecological and Biodiversity Studies]/. Nairobi and Kenya: World Agrofirestry Centre, 2005. Available here: http://www.worldagroforestry.org/downloads/publications/PDFs/MN08242.PDF HTH, Eduard On 12/06/2012 02:26 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > I left academia and basic ecological research decades ago and now work > with environmental data collected by companies in compliance with > regulatory > permit requirements. I've bought and read (mostly) all the books I could > find on ecological analyses using R (all but one of Alain Zuur's books, > Legendre & Legendre's 2nd English edition, Mike McCarthy's Bayesian > methods > book, and Ben Bolker's book) but cannot find any references to > 'communities' > in the indices. I'd greatly appreciate pointers to sources appropriate > for > environmental data (which is much sloppier than ecological research > data). > > The last time I addressed community analyses was my post-doc research > which I published in Freshwater Biology in 1984. Only within the past > year > have my clients needed to address issues using benthic macroinvertebrate > assemblages (and fish) in streams. And, since I work by myself, I've > no one > with whom to share ideas and discuss approaches; perhaps there's a better > forum than this mail list for this. > > The available benthic data has little taxonomic consistency below the > family level. I want to use functional feeding groups rather than taxa as > the basis of comparison because those better reflect conditions in each > stream (collections of biota are made only once per year), and I want to > examine correlations and cause-and-effect relations between biotic > assemblages and water chemistry. There are only a few fish collections, > tool, in the available data. > > All ideas are certainly welcome! > > TIA, > > Rich > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
