2018 All-Scientists’ Meeting Sessions and times are now confirmed. Locations may change, but will be updated on Sched.
**Please Note: If you sync you calendar, sessions will appear in your local time zone. This can be confusing until you arrive on site (when your local time zone will be the correct one).**
Univariate and multivariate methods are commonly used to explore the spatial and temporal dynamics of ecological communities. Both, however, have limitations, including oversimplification or abstraction of communities. Rank abundance curves potentially can integrate these existing methodologies. I have developed new methods for studying temporal changes and spatial differences in rank abundance curves and incorporated these metrics as functions in an update to the codyn R package. Preliminary investigations found that species reordering is potentially an understudied key determinant of community dynamics. This R package and the associated metrics utilizing rank abundance curves will enable researchers to further explore complexities in ecol
