IPBES is on its way

Since last year a new UN body has been created aiming at increasing the awareness of decision makers about the current biodiversity crisis. This new body is called the Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES in short). In this post I will quickly outline what is IPBES and will present the events that just …

Making Graphs using ggplot2 in R:

The base package in R allow nice graphs to be drawn but more advanced packages allow better control and still nicer graphs to be created. Two packages are mainly used lattice and ggplot2, I will here present to you the basics of ggplot2 and the way it works. The best way to understand the ggplot …