Resources for Ecology Students and Teachers
Our Resources for Ecology Students & Teachers include: data examples to use for practise and demonstration, and Custom Functions for R: The Statistical Programming Language.
Ecology students & teachers are always looking for resources to help with learning and teaching. Our resources include data examples that can be used in many ways. Each dataset is provided with some examples of how to use the data, for analysis, visualisation or however you like.
The R program is a powerful and flexible Open Source project, used by Universities and Professionals worldwide. Our resources for ecology students & teachers include custom R functions that help carry out a range of useful tasks. Each custom R function is available for download and is shown with various examples of the function in use.
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This dataset gives plant species communities for ten samples taken during National Vegetation Surveys (NVC) in Shropshire, UK. Each sample is based on […]
September 28, 2020
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This function adds a panel routine to the pairs() command. The panel can be the upper or the lower panel. The result is […]
September 27, 2020
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These data show counts of the plant hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) on a road verge in the UK. One sample is adjacent to the […]
September 26, 2020
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These data are from an undergraduate project in environmental science. The data are counts of numbers of flowers from individual bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) […]
September 25, 2020
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These data are from a PhD project regarding amino acids and floral nectar. Tropical stingless bees (Trigona hockingsii) were presented with a choice […]
July 29, 2020
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This function allows you to create simple abbreviations from species names. The default parameters split a scientific binomial name by taking 4 characters […]
July 22, 2020
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Data Examples
Our resources for ecology students & teachers include data examples. Ecology students & teachers are always looking for resources to help with learning and teaching. Our resources include data examples that can be used in many ways.
If you are an ecology student you can use the data examples to help you learn and practise various skills in data analytics.
If you are a teacher of ecology you can use the data examples to help teach and illustrate various topics in data analytics or ecological theory. You might also want to use the data to help set exercises for your students.
The data examples each come in two parts:
- A dataset that you can download, usually in CSV format or Tab separated.
- An article showing the dataset and illustrating various potential uses for the data.
Datasets and articles will be uploaded from time to time, so the archive of resources will grow. You can browse the articles, or use the search facility to explore the resources.
Custom R Functions
Our resources for ecology students & teachers include custom R functions. The R program is a powerful Open Source project, used by Universities and Professionals worldwide for many tasks in data analytics. Our resources for ecology students & teachers include custom R functions that help carry out a range of useful tasks. Being able to create new R functions is one aspect of R that makes it very flexible.
Each custom R function comes in two parts:
- The custom R function code as a download.
- An article showing the function code, along with examples of the function in use.
New R functions and articles will be uploaded from time to time. You can browse the articles, or use the search facility to explore the resources.
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Resources for teachers and students Look at our resources page for examples of custom R functions. R: the statistical programming
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