Community Ecology: Analytical Methods Using R and Excel

Community Ecology: Analytical Methods Using R and Excel
ISBN-10
1907807659
ISBN-13
9781907807657
Series
Community Ecology
Category
Science
Pages
425
Language
English
Published
2014-02-02
Publisher
Pelagic Publishing Ltd
Author
Mark Gardener

Description

Covers many of the mainstays of community analysis including: diversity, similarity and cluster analysis, ordination and multivariate analyses. Aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers seeking a step-by-step methodology for analysing plant and animal communities using R and Excel.

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