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Constrained ordination with distance-based RDA in R

vegan

ordination

constrained ordination

community ecology

Where NMDS shows all the compositional variation and lets you overlay environment afterward, distance-based RDA builds the ordination from your predictors and tests what…

Jun 20, 2026

Mapping species richness in R with sf

spatial

GIS

mapping

Turn species occurrence records into a gridded richness map with the sf package, then export a GeoPackage you can open in QGIS.

Jun 20, 2026

Putting statistics on an ordination: envfit and PERMANOVA

An NMDS shows the pattern. Use envfit to fit environmental variables onto it, adonis2 to test whether groups differ, and betadisper to keep the test honest.

Jun 20, 2026

Ordination with NMDS in R

vegan

ordination

community ecology

Turn a site-by-species table into a map of community composition with vegdist and metaMDS, then read the stress and decide how many dimensions you need.

Jun 19, 2026

Computing diversity indices in R with vegan

biodiversity

tutorial

Species richness, Shannon and Simpson from a community matrix, with code you can reuse.

Jun 18, 2026

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Field data,
cleanly analysed.

Constrained ordination with distance-based RDA in R

Mapping species richness in R with sf

Putting statistics on an ordination: envfit and PERMANOVA

Ordination with NMDS in R

Computing diversity indices in R with vegan

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