Here is a partial list of resources that discuss statistical techniques, R, and community analysis.

General Statistics

Gotelli, N.J., and A.M. Ellison. 2004. A primer of ecological statistics. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. ISBN 0-87893-269-0. Call number QH541.15.S72 G68 2004 [a readable summary of experimental design and statistics for ecologists; one chapter on multivariate techniques]

Legendre, P., and L. Legendre. 1998. Numerical ecology. Elsevier, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-89250-8. Call number QH541.15.M34 L4313 1998 [the classic tome providing the statistical details behind these techniques]

Scheiner, S.M., and J. Gurevitch. 2001. Design and analysis of ecological experiments. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-513187-8.

Tabachnick, B.G., and L.S. Fidell. 2006. Using multivariate statistics. 5^th edition. Allyn & Bacon, Boston, MA. ISBN 0205459382. Call number QA278 .T3 2007 [an overview of multivariate statistics; primarily parametric]

Zar, J.H. 1999. Biostatistical analysis. 4^th edition. Prentice Hall. ISBN 013081542X. Call number QH323.5 .Z37 1999 [a summary of conventional statistical techniques]

R Manuals

Bolker, B.M. 2008. Ecological models and data in R. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. ISBN 978-0-691-12522-0 [covers maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayesian techniques]

Clark, J.S. 2007. Models for ecological data: an introduction. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. ISBN 978-0-691-12178-9. Call number QH541.15.M3 C53 2007. [Bayesian statistics; a companion lab manual is also available]

Crawley, M.J. 2005. Statistics: an introduction using R. Wiley, West Sussex, England. ISBN 978-0-470-02298-6. Call number QA276.12 .C73 2005.

Crawley, M.J. 2007. The R book. Wiley, West Sussex, England. ISBN 978-0-470-51024-7. Call number QA276.45.R3 C73 2007. [a 900+ page tome packed with great information]

Dalgaard, P. 2002. Introductory statistics with R. Springer, New York, NY. ISBN 0-387-95475-9. Call number QA276.4 .D33 2002

Everitt, B.S., and T. Hothorn. 2006. A handbook of statistical analyses using R. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, LA. ISBN 978-1-58488-539-9. Call number QA276.45.R3 E94 2006

Faraway, J.J. 2006. Extending the linear model with R: generalized linear, mixed effects and nonparametric regression models. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, LA. ISBN 978-1-58488-424-8

Maindonald, J., and W.J. Braun. 2007. Data analysis and graphics using R - an example-based approach. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86116-8.

Rizzo, M.L. 2008. Statistical computing with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, LA. ISBN 978-1-58488-545-0.

Venables, W.N., and B.D. Ripley. 2000. Modern applied statistics with S. 4^th edition. Springer-Verlag, New York, NY. ISBN 0-387-95457-0. Call number QA276.4 .V46 2002 [an introduction to R]

R Graphics

Murrell, P. 2006. R graphics. Chapman & Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, LA. ISBN 978-1-58488-486-6. Call number T385 .M9 2006

Sarkar, Deepayan. 2008. Lattice: multivariate data visualization with R. Springer, New York, NY. ISBN 978-0-387-75968-5.

Community Analysis

Anderson, M.J., R.N. Gorley, and K.R. Clarke. 2008. PERMANOVA+ for PRIMER: guide to software and statistical methods. PRIMER-E, Plymouth, UK. 214 p.

Clarke, K.R., and R.N. Gorley. 2006. PRIMER v6: user manual / tutorial. PRIMER-E, Plymouth, UK. 190 p.

Clarke, K.R., and R.M. Warwick. 2001. Change in marine communities: an approach to statistical analysis and interpretation. 2^nd edition. PRIMER-E, Plymouth, UK.

Leps, J., and P. Smilauer. 2003. Multivariate analysis of ecological data using CANOCO. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. ISBN 978-0-52189-108-0.

Magurran, A.E. 2004. Measuring biological diversity. Blackwell, Oxford, UK. ISBN 978-0-632-05633-0. Call number QH541.15.B56 M34 2004

McCune, B., and J.B. Grace. 2002. Analysis of ecological communities. MjM Software Design, Gleneden Beach, OR. ISBN 0-9721290-0-6. Call number QH541.15.S72 M33 2002

Stohlgren, T.J. 2007. Measuring plant diversity: lessons from the field. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. ISBN 978-0-19-517233-1. Call number QK46.5.D58 S86 2007

Zuur, A.F., E.N. Ieno, and G.M. Smith. 2007. Analysing ecological data. Springer, New York, NY. 978-0-387-45967-7. Call number QH541.15.S72 Z88 2007