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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