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vegan (version 1.6-4)

Community Ecology Package

Description

Ordination methods and other useful functions for community and vegetation ecologists.

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install.packages('vegan')

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141,487

Version

1.6-4

License

GPL2

Maintainer

Jari Oksanen

Last Published

October 8th, 2025

Functions in vegan (1.6-4)

rankindex

Compares Dissimilarity Indices for Gradient Detection
vegdist

Dissimilarity Indices for Community Ecologists
decorana

Detrended Correspondence Analysis and Basic Reciprocal Averaging
cca

[Partial] [Constrained] Correspondence Analysis and Redundancy Analysis
anova.cca

Permutation Test for Constrained Correspondence Analysis, Redundancy Analysis and Constrained Analysis of Principal Coordinates
mantel

Mantel Test for Two Dissimilarity Matrices
vegan-internal

Internal vegan functions
decostand

Standardizaton Methods for Community Ecology
initMDS

Random Start and Axis Scaling for isoMDS
procrustes

Procrustes Rotation of Two Configurations
ordiplot

Alternative plot and identify Functions for Ordination
specaccum

Species Accumulation Curves
fisherfit

Fit Fisher's Logseries and Preston's Lognormal model to Abundance Data
humpfit

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

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

Smooths Variables and Plots Contours on Ordination.
deviance.cca

Statistics Resembling Deviance and AIC for Constrained Ordination
read.cep

Reads a CEP (Canoco) data file
vegemite

Prints a Compact, Ordered Vegetation Table
anosim

Analysis of Similarities
BCI

Barro Colorado Island Tree Counts
distconnected

Connectedness and Minimum Spanning Tree for Dissimilarities
radfit

Rank -- Abundance or Dominance / Diversity Models
scores

Get Species or Site Scores from an Ordination
specpool

Extrapolated Species Richness in a Species Pool
ordihull

Add Graphical Items to Ordination Diagrams
diversity

Ecological Diversity Indices and Rarefaction Species Richness
bioenv

Best subset of environmental variables with maximum (rank) correlation with community dissimilarities.
dune

Vegetation and Environment in Dutch Dune Meadows.
stepacross

Stepacross as Flexible Shortest Paths or Extended Dissimilarities
capscale

[Partial] Constrained Analysis of Principal Coordinates
make.cepnames

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

Fits an Environmental Vector or Factor onto an Ordination
varespec

Vegetation and environment in lichen pastures
wascores

Weighted Averages Scores for Species