[R-sig-eco] R-sig-ecology Digest, Vol 19, Issue 4

[tavery]

Roman,
BiodiversityR and vegan are two packages that help with ecological 
analysis like species richness, diversity indices, relatedness, etc.. 
The PDF help files have a lot of information on biodiversity analysis in 
general (check out the vegan website too). There is a book called 
Ecological Methods  by Henderson and Southwood that covers a lot of 
material. As far performing GLMs or Mixed Models or other ecological 
models, Ecological Models in R by Ben Bolker (2008) is a good resource 
(he also has most of the information posted to his website) and I have 
found Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R (Statistics 
for Biology and Health) by Alain F. Zuur, Elena N. Ieno, Neil J. Walker, 
and Anatoly A. Saveliev (2009) excellent as well.

It is difficult to determine what you want to do with the data as you do 
not provide details.

cheers,
trevor
> Message: 1
> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2009 14:47:42 +0200
> From: Roman Lu?trik <roman.lustrik at gmail.com>
> Subject: [R-sig-eco] student seeking help for ecological analysis in
> 	marine	ecology
> To: r-sig-ecology at r-project.org
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> Hello List-o-members,
>
> my name is Roman Lustrik and I'm a student of biology-ecology at the
> University of Ljubljana. I am nearing the end of my formal education path
> and a graduation thesis is in order. I have hooked up with marine biologists
> from our only research station in Piran and together, we sampled hard bottom
> sediments along the entire Slovenian coast. My responsibility was gathering
> data on polychaetes. Along side, I was made available a number of other
> data, including algae cover and geomorphological parameters of sampling
> sites.
>
> I was hoping I could run all the analyses using R and make this somewhat
> central theme of my thesis. Hopefully, this would help spur future students
> in taking up professional open source software solutions like R. To my
> knowledge, R has not been of central theme in grad theses in ecology
> analysis in Slovenia.
> Since I'm somewhat new to ecological analyses I was hoping someone
> subscribing to this list could lend me a hand with a hint of literature
> relevant to my subject (a book, a paper or something that would start me off
> with relevant analyses). While I do have a formal mentor who is keeping in
> order the biological part of my thesis, I am fully susceptible to guidance
> from a willing co-mentor who is working in R and ecology.
>
> If anyone can help me in any way as described above, it would be most
> appreciated.
>
> With best wishes,
> Roman
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