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title: 'aquats: Robust Ecological and Fisheries Data Analysis and Visualization'
version: 1.2.2
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.22885026
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.aquats
abstract: A comprehensive statistical and visualization toolkit tailored for observational
  data in fisheries science and aquatic ecology. Provides streamlined workflows for
  univariate and factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA), analysis of covariance (ANCOVA),
  multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA), permutational multivariate analysis
  of variance (PERMANOVA), similarity percentages (SIMPER), generalized linear models,
  non-linear morphometric regressions, two-group hypothesis testing, and chi-square
  tests. Features multivariate ordination methods including non-metric multidimensional
  scaling (NMDS), principal component analysis (PCA), redundancy analysis (RDA), distance-based
  redundancy analysis (db-RDA), and hierarchical cluster dendrograms. Computes alpha
  diversity metrics, species accumulation curves, water quality index (WQI) values,
  heavy metal ecotoxicological contamination indices, correlation heatmaps, and Mantel
  test network linkages. Offers specialized environmental visualizations including
  Sankey diagrams, Likert plots, circular bar charts, and longitudinal time-series
  with uncertainty ribbons. Methodological formulations for multivariate permutation
  tests follow Anderson (2001) <https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1442-9993.2001.01070.pp.x>.
  Ecological community dissimilarity transformations follow Legendre and Gallagher
  (2001) <https://doi.org/10.1007/s004420100716>, and ecotoxicological contamination
  index models follow Tomlinson et al. (1980) <https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02414780>.
authors:
- family-names: Ali
  given-names: Ataher
  email: ataher.cu.ms@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8780-0903
- family-names: Alam
  given-names: Mohammed Shahidul
  email: alamms@cu.ac.bd
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2740-5908
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'aquats: Robust Ecological and Fisheries Data Analysis and Visualization'
  authors:
  - family-names: Ali
    given-names: Ataher
    email: ataher.cu.ms@gmail.com
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8780-0903
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 1.2.0
  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.22885026
  url: https://github.com/Ataher76/aquats
repository: https://ataher76.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/Ataher76/aquats
commit: 3751183cafc9406cf421f7e07cae3c25d375fb52
url: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22885025
date-released: '2026-10-22'
contact:
- family-names: Ali
  given-names: Ataher
  email: ataher.cu.ms@gmail.com
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8780-0903