… RB O’Hara and MJ Sillanpää … RB O’Hara and MJ Sillanpää … RB O’Hara and MJ Sillanpää …

Despite much criticism, black-or-white null-hypothesis significance testing with an arbitrary P-value
cutoff still is the standard way to report scientific findings. One obstacle to progress is …

Demand for models in biodiversity assessments is rising, but which models are adequate
for the task? We propose a set of best-practice standards and detailed guidelines enabling …

The functions in the vegan package contain tools for diversity analysis, ordination methods
and tools for the analysis of dissimilarities. Together with the labdsv package, the vegan …

… The anosim statistic R is based on the difference of mean ranks between groups (rB) and
within groups (rW ): R = (rB − rW )/(N(N − 1)/4) … Jari Oksanen, Roeland Kindt 〈r.kindt@cgiar.org〉 …

Animal movement is fundamental for ecosystem functioning and species survival, yet the
effects of the anthropogenic footprint on animal movements have not been estimated across …

Technological advances have enabled a new class of multivariate models for ecology, with
the potential now to specify a statistical model for abundances jointly across many taxa, to …

A primary goal of ecology is to understand the fundamental processes underlying the
geographic distributions of species. Two major strands of ecology – habitat modelling and …

Comparative studies of quantitative genetic and neutral marker differentiation have provided
means for assessing the relative roles of natural selection and random genetic drift in …

… This work was initiated by two workshops on ‘The ecological niche as a window to biodiversity’,
organized by Steven Higgins, Bob O’Hara and Christine Römermann and funded by the …