THE SUMMER LEGENDRE CLUB

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Hey there,
For those who still stay in Taipei this summer, if you are interested
in our club, please conact me soon.... SEVEN

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This summer, we are putting together a journal club to go through the
spatial-temporal statistics developed by Prof. Pierre Legendre in the
past decade. We will be meeting twice or 3 times per month this summer
in BRCAS to read, discuss and apply his methods. Here is the tentative
reading list...

Week 1 : Introduce spatial autocorrelation and Variation partitioning
(8/2, 3PM)
<This week we will be focus on following 2 topics using mainly those
papers with◎>
Topic 1: what is spatial autocorrelation?
Topic 2: how to partition out the spatial component?

Legendre, P., M. Troussellier. 1988. Aquatic heterotrophic bacteria:
Modeling in the presence of spatial autocorrelation. Limnol.
Oceanogr.. 33(5). 1055-1067.

◎Legendre, P., M.-J. Fortin. 1989. Spatial pattern and ecological
analysis. Vegetatio. 80. 107-138.

◎Borcard, D., P. Legendre, P. Drapeau. 1992. Partialling out the
spatial component of ecological variation. Ecology. Volume 73. Issue
3. 1045–1055.

Dungan, J. L., J. N. Perry, M. R. T. Dale, P. Legendre, S. Citron-
Pousty, M.-J. Fortin, A. Jakomulska, M. Miriti, M. S. Rosenberg. 2002.
A balanced view of scale in spatial statistical analysis. Ecography.
25. 626–640.

◎Legendre, P., D. Borcard, and P.R. Peres-Neto. 2005. Analyzing beta
diversity: partitioning the spatial variation of community composition
data. Ecological Monographs 75:435-450.

◎Peres-Neto, P.R., P. Legendre, S. Dray, and D. Borcard. 2006.
Variation partitioning of species data matrices: estimation and
comparison of fractions. Ecology 87:2614–2625.

<Additional materials>
Ordination techniques:
1.Legendre, P. & M. J. Anderson. 1999. Distance-based redundancy
analysis: testing multi-species responses in multi-factorial
ecological experiments. Ecological Monographs 69 (1): 1-24.

2.Legendre, P. and E. Gallagher. 2001. Ecologically meaningful
transformations for ordination of species data. Oecologia 129:
271-280.

Week 2: PCNM (1)
Borcard, D., P. Legendre. 2002. All-scale spatial analysis of
ecological data by means of principal coordinates of neighbour
matrices. Ecological Modelling. 153. 51–68.

Borcard, D., P. Legendre, C. Avois-Jacquet, H. Tuomisto. 2004.
Dissecting the spatial structure of ecological data at multiple
scales. Ecology. 85. 1826–1832.

Brind’Amour, A., D. Boisclair, P. Legendre,D. Borcard. 2005.
Multiscale spatial distribution of a littoral fish community in
relation to environmental variables. Limnol. Oceanogr. 50. 465–479.

Week 3: PCNM (2)
Peres-Neto, P.R. 2006. A unified strategy for estimating and
controlling spatial, temporal and phylogenetic autocorrelation in
ecological models. Oecologia Brasiliensis 10: 105-119.

Dray, S., P. Legendre, P. Peres-Neto. 2006. Spatial modelling: a
comprehensive framework for principal coordinate analysis of neighbour
matrices (PCNM). Ecological Modelling. 196.483–493.

Beisner, B.E., Peres-Neto, P.R., Lindstrom, E., Barnett, A., and
Longhi, M.L. 2006. The role of dispersal in structuring lake
communities from bacteria to fish. Ecology 87:2895-2991.

Week 4: More PCNM (3)
Bellier, E., P. Monestiez, J. P. Durbec, J. N. Candau. 2007.
Identifying spatial relationships at multiple scales: principal
coordinates of neighbour matrices (PCNM) and geostatistical
approaches. Ecography. 30. 385–399.

Lacey, R. W. J., P. Legendre, A. G. Roy. 2007. Spatial-scale
partitioning of in situ turbulent flow data over a pebble cluster in a
gravel-bed river. Water Resour. Res.. 43. W03416. doi:
10.1029/2006WR005044.

Legendre, P., X. Mi, H. Ren, K. Ma, M. Yu, I-F. Sun,F. He. 2009.
Partitioning beta diversity in a subtropical broad-leaved forest of
China. Ecology. 90(3). 663–674.

Peres-Neto, P. R. and P. Legendre. 2010. Estimating and controlling
for spatial structure in the study of ecological communities. Global
Ecology and Biogeography 19: 174-184.

Week 5: Spatial-temporal interaction
Legendre, P., M. D. Caceres, D. Borcard. 2010. Community surveys
through space and time: testing the space–time interaction in the
absence of replication. Ecology. 91(1). 262–272.

Laliberté, E., A. Paquette, P. Legendre, and A. Bouchard. 2009.
Assessing the scale-specific importance of niches and other spatial
processes on beta diversity: a case study from a temperate forest.
Oecologia 159: 377-388.