Graphical User Interface (via the R-Commander) and utility functions (oftenbased on the vegan package) for statistical analysis of biodiversity and ecological communities,including species accumulation curves, diversity indices, Renyi profiles, GLMs for analysisof species abundance and presence-absence, distance matrices, Mantel tests, and cluster, constrainedand unconstrained ordination analysis. A book on biodiversity and community ecologyanalysis is available for free download from the website. In 2012, methods for (ensemble)suitability modelling and mapping were expanded in the package.