Welcome to vegan - Community Ecology Package project!

'vegan' is a CRAN package for the analysis of ecological communities. It has tools for analysing ecological diversity, and for the multivariate analysis of communities (NMDS, pCCA, pRDA etc.) - Development on R-Forge discontinued, go to https://github.com/vegandevs/

What is in vegan?

Vegan contains many popular tools used in community ecology. The following list is not exhaustive, but lists only some popular tools:

• Diversity analysis: Shannon, Simpson, Fisher indices, Rényi diversities and Hill numbers.
• Species abundance models: Fisher and Preston models, species abundance distributions.
• Analysis of species richness: species accumulation curves, extrapolated richness.
• Ordination: support and meta functions for NMDS, redundancy analysis, constrained correspondence analysis, constrained analysis of proximities (all three with partial analysis),
• Support functions for ordination: dissimilarity indices, extended dissimilarities, Procrustes analysis, ordination diagnostics, permutation tests.
• Ordination and environment: vector fitting, centroid fitting and smooth surface fitting, adding species scores as weighted averages, adding convex hull, SD ellipses, arrows etc. to ordination.
• Dissimilarity analyses: ANOVA using dissimilarities, ANOSIM, MRPP, BIOENV, Mantel and partial Mantel tests.
• Data standardization: Hellinger, Wisconsin, Chi-square, Beals smoothing.

Vegan resources

Here some pointers to vegan resources:

• The project summary page at R-Forge.
• The NEWS of the (next) release
• Release plans of vegan
• FAQ: R-Forge binaries of vegan fail in Mac
• Vegan FAQ.
• Vegan tutorial as a pdf file.

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