Analysis of community structure: requirements for RNR 555
paper
The paper should be prepared in a format suitable for submission to
Journal of Vegetation Science.
Title page, with author (alias only, please) and affiliation
Abstract
Introduction, including objectives
Methods, adequate for the reader to repeat the study
- I will help with the mundane details of submitting SAS jobs and
interpreting the output (this is not a computer programming class). See
me for details, if needed.
- You are encouraged to submit computer jobs as a group, and share the
output.
Results, including at least the following:
- Ordination diagram of species and stand (quadrat) scores
- Dendrogram
- Richness, Simpson's index, Shannon's index
Discussion
- Interpret data in light of species' natural histories
- Generate hypotheses about observed patterns