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vegan (version 1.13-2)

Community Ecology Package

Description

Ordination methods, diversity analysis and other functions for community and vegetation ecologists.

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install.packages('vegan')

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Version

1.13-2

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Jari Oksanen

Last Published

June 6th, 2025

Functions in vegan (1.13-2)

designdist

Design your own Dissimilarities
anova.cca

Permutation Test for Constrained Correspondence Analysis, Redundancy Analysis and Constrained Analysis of Principal Coordinates
dune.taxon

Taxonomic Classification of Dune Meadow Species
dune

Vegetation and Environment in Dutch Dune Meadows.
metaMDS

Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling with Stable Solution from Random Starts, Axis Scaling and Species Scores
biplot.rda

PCA biplot
as.mlm.cca

Refit Constrained Ordination as a Multiple Response Linear Model
ordihull

Add Graphical Items to Ordination Diagrams
adonis

Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance Using Distance Matrices
decostand

Standardization Methods for Community Ecology
fisherfit

Fit Fisher's Logseries and Preston's Lognormal Model to Abundance Data
oecosimu

Nestedness and Null Models for Islands or Patches
bgdispersal

Coefficients of Biogeographical Dispersal Direction
cca.object

Result Object from Constrained Ordination with cca, rda or capscale
cca

[Partial] [Constrained] Correspondence Analysis and Redundancy Analysis
isomap

Isometric Feature Mapping Ordination
linestack

Plots One-dimensional Diagrams without Overwriting Labels
mite

Oribatid Mite Data with Explanatory Variables
humpfit

No-interaction Model for Hump-backed Species Richness vs. Biomass
beals

Beals Smoothing and Degree of Absence
mantel

Mantel and Partial Mantel Tests for Dissimilarity Matrices
ordisurf

Fit and Plot Smooth Surfaces of Variables on Ordination.
betadiver

Indices of beta Diversity
cascadeKM

K-means partitioning using a range of values of K
make.cepnames

Abbreviates a Botanical or Zoological Latin Name into an Eight-character Name
decorana

Detrended Correspondence Analysis and Basic Reciprocal Averaging
bioenv

Best Subset of Environmental Variables with Maximum (Rank) Correlation with Community Dissimilarities
ordiplot

Alternative plot and identify Functions for Ordination
permutest.betadisper

Permutation test of ultivariate homogeneity of groups dispersions (variances)
pyrifos

Response of Aquatic Invertebrates to Insecticide Treatment
plot.cca

Plot or Extract Results of Constrained Correspondence Analysis or Redundancy Analysis
spantree

Minimum Spanning Tree
screeplot.cca

Screeplots for Ordination Results and Broken Stick Distributions
stepacross

Stepacross as Flexible Shortest Paths or Extended Dissimilarities
sipoo

Birds in the Archipelago of Sipoo (Sibbo)
procrustes

Procrustes Rotation of Two Configurations and PROTEST
prc

Principal Response Curves for Treatments with Repeated Observations
specaccum

Species Accumulation Curves
orditkplot

Ordination Plot with Movable Labels
varpart

Partition the Variation of Community Matrix by 2, 3, or 4 Explanatory Matrices
rankindex

Compares Dissimilarity Indices for Gradient Detection
scores

Get Species or Site Scores from an Ordination
vegandocs

Display Package Documentation
vegan-internal

Internal vegan functions
renyi

Renyi and Hill Diversities and Corresponding Accumulation Curves
vegdist

Dissimilarity Indices for Community Ecologists
diversity

Ecological Diversity Indices and Rarefaction Species Richness
ordiplot3d

Three-Dimensional and Dynamic Ordination Graphics
anosim

Analysis of Similarities
predict.cca

Prediction Tools for [Constrained] Ordination (CCA, RDA, DCA, CA, PCA)
read.cep

Reads a CEP (Canoco) data file
wascores

Weighted Averages Scores for Species
taxondive

Indices of Taxonomic Diversity and Distinctness
capscale

[Partial] Constrained Analysis of Principal Coordinates or distance-based RDA
BCI

Barro Colorado Island Tree Counts
CCorA

Canonical Correlation Analysis
deviance.cca

Statistics Resembling Deviance and AIC for Constrained Ordination
permCheck

Utility functions for permutation schemes
distconnected

Connectedness of Dissimilarities
envfit

Fits an Environmental Vector or Factor onto an Ordination
orditorp

Add Text or Points to Ordination Plots
betadisper

Multivariate homogeneity of groups dispersions (variances)
goodness.cca

Diagnostic Tools for [Constrained] Ordination (CCA, RDA, DCA, CA, PCA)
goodness.metaMDS

Goodness of Fit and Shepard Plot for Nonmetric Multidimensional Scaling
mso

Functions for performing and displaying a spatial partitioning of cca or rda results
ordixyplot

Trellis (Lattice) Plots for Ordination
permuted.index2

Unrestricted and restricted permutations
vegemite

Prints a Compact, Ordered Vegetation Table
radfit

Rank -- Abundance or Dominance / Diversity Models
ordiresids

Plots of Residuals and Fitted Values for Constrained Ordination
specpool

Extrapolated Species Richness in a Species Pool
mrpp

Multi Response Permutation Procedure of Within- versus Among-Group Dissimilarities
varespec

Vegetation and environment in lichen pastures