Multivariate Applications in Ecology

Jan 20 - Course Introduction, software review
Jan 24 Introduction to R, Data management
Feb 5-7 - Distance matrices, ANOSIM, MRPP
Feb 14 - Clustering (no class Monday the 12^th)
Feb 19-21 - Matrix comparisons (Mantel test)
Feb 26-28 - Ordination I - Principal coordinates analysis
Mar 5-7 - Ordination II- Principal components analysis
Mar 19-21 - Ordination III - Non-metric multidimensional scaling
Mar 26-28 - Correspondence analysis (CA, Reciprcal averaging) and Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA)
Apr 2-4 - Constrained Ordination I - Canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) and Redundancy analysis (RA)
Apr 9-11 - Indicator Species Analysis, TWINSPAN and SIMPER
Apr 16-18 - Regression trees, AIC
Apr 23-25- Geometric morphometrics
Apr 30-May 2 - Phylogenetic Independent Contrasts

Schaefer Lab