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RSS/Environmental Statistics Study Group meeting Ordination Techniques in Environmental Science Joint meeting with the Edinburgh Local Group of the RSS Thursday October 9, 2003, 10:30 Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh Meeting ends 4:00pm Major advances have been made in the last 15 years in the theory and application of ordination techniques in environmental biology. Speakers: John Birks (Botanical Institute, University of Bergen) will review progress in several areas, including canonical or constrained techniques for multivariate direct gradient analysis and statistical analysis of multivariate data, and discuss some of the pitfalls that can arise in the interpretation of ordination results. Robin Pakeman (Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen) will then present some case studies in the use of ordination techniques showing the value of these approaches in plant ecology studies. James Currall (Information Service, University of Glasgow) will consider the application of ordination techniques to a data set with comparisons to alternative statisitical analyses. Registration and payment for lunch is required - details in RSS News (and on envstat web-page) More information on the envstat web-page (link below). Posted by: Howard Grubb ([log in to unmask]) _____________________________________________________________________ Homepage for envstat list: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/files/envstat