R语言-A.Primer.of.Ecology.with.R.pdf

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M. Henry H. Stevens
A Primer of Ecology with R
M. Henry H. Stevens
Department of Botany
Miami University
Oxford, OH 45056, USA
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ISBN 978-0-387-89881-0 e-ISBN 978-0-387-89882-7
DOI -0-387-89882-7
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To my perfect parents, Martin and Ann,
to my loving wife, Julyan,
and to my wonderfully precocious kids, Tessa and Jack.
Preface
Goals and audience
In spite of the presumptuous title, my goals for this book are modest. I wrote
it as
• the manual I wish I had in graduate school, and
• a primer for our graduate course in Population munity Ecology at
Miami University1
It is my hope that readers can enjoy the ecological content and ignore the
R code, if they care to. Toward this end, I tried to make the code easy to ignore,
by either putting boxes around it, or simply concentrating code in some sections
and keeping it out of ot