Hi everyone Instats is thrilled to offer a 5-day seminar, Analysis of Ecological Communities in R, livestreaming December 8-12 and led by Dr Antoine Becker-Scarpitta from CIRAD (Agricultural Research Centre for International Development). As community and trait datasets grow more multidimensional, this workshop empowers PhD students, academics, and professional researchers to harness the VEGAN package in R for rigorous diversity metrics, sophisticated multivariate analyses, and fully reproducible workflows that reveal macroecological patterns driven by environmental gradients, anthropogenic pressures, or spatial structure. Through concise lectures, hands-on coding, and opportunities to analyze your own data, you'll gain fluency in transformation and distance measures, clustering, unconstrained and constrained ordination (PCA, RDA), variation partitioning, and introductory spatial modeling with HMSC skills essential for cutting-edge community ecology, macroevolutionary, and microbial ecology research. https://instats.org/seminar/analysis-of-ecological-communities-in-r Sign up today to secure your spot, and feel free to share this opportunity with colleagues and students who might benefit! Best wishes Michael Zyphur Professor and Director Instats | instats.org Michael Zyphur (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)