Biol 7083 - Community Ecology - Spring 2024
Instructor: Dr. Kyle E. Harms
Syllabus, PowerPoint files, assigned readings, etc. – LSU students who are enrolled in the course have access to these items via the course's LSU Moodle page; others may contact Kyle to receive them electronically.
Interesting Websites, Useful Software, Recommended Textbook, etc.
M. Cadotte — EEB & Flow
J. Fox (plus B. McGill and M. Duffy) — Dynamic Ecology
A. Hendry — Advice for Young Scientists
(i.e., undergraduates, graduate students, and early-career faculty members)
M. Kaspari — Manifesto
M. Kaspari — Ten Principles of Ecology
J. Myers — Resources in Ecology, Evolution & Conservation
M. Noor — "Graduate School 101" & "Succeeding Beyond Graduate School"
H. Stevens — Primer of Ecology using R
E. White & S. K. M. Ernest — Jabberwoky Ecology
M. Vellend — R code forThe Theory of Ecological Communities
Analysis of Community Ecology Data in R — David Zelený
Community Ecology, 2nd edition — G. Mittelbach & B. McGill
(this is the community ecology textbook that I recommend)
EcoSimR — N. Gotelli & A. Ellison; freeware for various null-model analyses
(e.g., see "Niche Overlap Tutorial" for a surprising result re MacArthur's warblers)
EstimateS — R. Colwell; freeware for diversity assessments;
also within the website, follow the link to Anne Chao's website
(e.g., rarefaction curves, etc.)
R4All — helpful R books and other resources for beginners to advanced users
The Ordination Page — M. Palmer; all sorts of useful info. re ordination
A few useful R packages for community ecology
- BiodiversityR — R. Kindt; statistical tools for biodiversity analyses
- CRAN — The Comprehensive R Archive Network; not all R packages are found here, but most are
- fgeo — ForestGEO; for analysis of data from the large-scale forest-dynamics plot network
- vegan — J. Oksanen; for various community-level analyses