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Numerical ecology is the field of quantitative ecology devoted to the numerical analysis of multivariate ecological data, with emphasis on community composition data, aimed at understanding the processes that generate and maintain biodiversity in ecosystems. Community ecologists, whose data are multivariate by nature (many species, many environmental variables), are the primary users of these methods, but not the only ones. Numerical ecology is a sub-discipline of ecology, not of statistics or of some other mathematical discipline.

The expression numerical ecology was created by Pierre Legendre and Louis Legendre in the first editions of their books Écologie numérique (in French, 1979) and Numerical ecology (in English, 1983).^[1]

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^ "Numerical Ecology, 3rd Edition". Retrieved 23 November 2025.

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