Developments in Numerical Ecology

I. Invited Lectures.- Scaling techniques.- to ordination techniques.- Some multidimensional scaling and related procedures devised at Bell Laboratories, with ecological applications.- The duality diagram: a means for better practical applications.- Nonlinear multivariate analysis with optimal scaling.- Joint ordination of species and sites: the unfolding technique.- Clustering under a priori models.- Some non-standard clustering algorithms.- Constrained clustering.- Species associations and conditional clustering.- Fractal Theory.- Applications of fractal theory to ecology.- Path analysis for mixed variables.- Path analysis with optimal scaling.- Spatial analysis.- Spatial point pattern analysis in ecology.- Applications of spatial autocorrelation in ecology.- II. Working Group Reports.- Numerical ecology: developments for microbial ecology.- Numerical ecology: developments for studying the benthos.- Data analysis in pelagic community studies.- Numerical ecology: developments for biological oceanography and limnology.- Numerical methods in terrestrial plant ecology.- Novel statistical analyses in terrestrial animal ecology: dirty data and clean questions.- List of participants.

Pierre Legendre, geb. 1930, ist Rechtshistoriker mit einem weiten psychoanalytischen, kultur- und religionshistorischen Hintergrund. Er lehrt an der Pariser 'École pratique des Hautes Études'.