This page contains links to various documents and programs that will be used during the course
Day 1
"Origin_of_spatial_structures" (pdf of a PowerPoint presentation)
"File: Script_graphic_rotation_3-D.pdf" (R demonstration)
"From classical to canonical ordination" (Chapter)
"Contingency table analysis" (Teaching document)
"Transformations for ordination of species data" (Chapter extract)
"Ordination methods for community composition data" (Figure)
"Canonical analysis" (Classroom notes)
Day 2
"Beta diversity partitioning" (pdf of a seminar)
"Replacement and richness difference components of beta diversity" (pdf of a seminar)
"Temporal beta diversity" (pdf of a seminar)
Day 3
"Spatial eigenfunction methods" (pdf of a PowerPoint presentation)
"Other eigenfunction-based methods of spatial analysis" (Chapter extract)
"Test of space-time interaction" (pdf of a PowerPoint presentation)
Published papers referred to in the course
"Dissecting the spatial structure of ecological data at multiple scales, Ecology 2004" (Article)
"Legendre & De Caceres, Beta diversity partitioning, Ecology Letters 2013" (Article)
"Legendre, Repl and Rich.diff components of beta, Global Ecology and Biogeography 2014" (Article)
"Legendre & Gauthier, Space-time analysis, Proc. Roy. Soc. B 2014" (Article)
Practicals last updated in April 2016
Folder containing practicals using the R statistical language
Folder containing 3 exercises in R on spatial eigenfunction analysis
R functions and PDF reprints from the lab of Pierre Legendre