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Although multivariate analysis of ecological data already existed and was being actively developed in the 1960s, it really flourished in the years 1970 and later. Many textbooks were published during these years; among them were the seminal Écologie numérique (Legendre and Legendre 1979) and its English translation Numerical Ecology (Legendre and Legendre 1983). The authors of these books unified, under one single roof, a very wide array of statistical and other numerical techniques and presented them in a comprehensive way, not only to help researchers understand the available methods of analyses, but also to explain how to choose and apply them in an ordered, logical way to reach their research goals. Mathematical explanations are not absent from these books, and they provide a precious insider look into the various techniques, which is appealing to readers wishing to go beyond the simple user level.
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Borcard, D., Gillet, F., Legendre, P. (2011). Introduction. In: Numerical Ecology with R. Use R. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7976-6_1
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