Questions tagged [vegan]
R package for community and vegetation ecology. Includes ordination methods, diversity analysis, etc.
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How to run SIMPER analysis (vegan package) using R? [on hold]
I'm trying to run SIMPER analysis (from "vegan" package) in R, but could not get the results I expected. I tried to follow the guidance (https://rdrr.io/rforge/vegan/man/simper.html) but I am still ...
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What Null hypothesis does vegan::anova.cca(by = “terms”) test against?
I ran a distance-based Redundancy Analysis with the vegan R-package.
Statistical significance of axes and explanatory variables can be tested with the anova.cca() function.
Form Legendre et al. ...
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Correlation between constrained and unconstrained ordination axes
I am comparing several attributes between two types of things. My goals are (1) hypothesis testing and (2) to summarize the information from multiple attributes.
PCA is an option, but this method is ...
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odd insignificant results using pairwise.perm.manova
I am trying to complete pairwise comparisons of 9 forest communities. Communities were significant at p < 0.001 using adonis. However, when I use the same bray curtis matrix with the pairwise.perm....
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R: Statistically testing NMDS community differences
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I am comparing species communities at 6 different sites. Communities at each site were measured repeatedly over 5 years. I used NMDS plots, based on bray-curtis distance matrices using ...
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How to determine which species are biggest contributors to overall variation in community?
I have data on the community of microbes from different soil types, however I do not have any environmental variables, only categorical (sites). I have generated PCoAs with distance matrices, however ...
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Evaluating ecological community over time with NMDS?
I have sampling data of insect communities per month for 7 months. The sampling occurred in the same location with the same methods once a month. I want to be able to see community changes over time ...
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Comparing species correlations between species in two habitats
I have two community data sets (samples as rows, species as columns, populated with abundance). This data comes from two habitats/sites, with differing numbers of samples at each site.
What I want ...
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Comparing relative distances between separate ordinations
I have four sites:
Treatment_1 and Control_1 of experiment 1 (8 plots in total)
Treatment_2 & Control_2 of experiment 2 (8 plots in total)
I ran an RDA for each experiment separately to compare ...
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Variation partition analysis: morphology-climate correlation, controlling for geography
I'm working with three datasets with informations about individuals: morphological data, climatic data of the individual sampling site and geographical data.
My objective is to assess whether ...
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RDA and CCA output- unconstrained inertia 0.00 rank 0
I get an ouput for RDA and for CCA that says that my unconstrained inertia is 0, rank 0. I thought that would be a good thing in the meaning that all the variance in the data is explained by my (...
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How to choose an ordination method for your dataset?
I'm looking for advice on how to choose the correct/best ordination method for my data.
My data set: Plant species abundance by plot. Approx 150 plots w/ 40 different plant species. The plots are ...
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metaMDS: Choosing a solution (lower stress vs higher # of dimensions) [closed]
I'm new to ordination and the Vegan package in general. Right now I'm using
the vegan NMDS function (metaMDS) to look at a data set that has species
cover by plot. The data set has a high percentage ...
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R, vegan: Is it possible to get effect direction from adonis results?
I used the vegan package and the adonis function to test the impact of a variable on communities.
As far as I understand, the output tells me that there is an effect, but it does not tell me if there ...
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How to view the predicted unimodal response of a Canonical Correspondence Analysis?
I'm trying to understand the predicted patterns of a Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA). I understand one of this method's strengths in understanding ecological patterns lies in its assumption of ...
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What do standard deviation ellipses mean in an ordination plot?
When kind = 'sd, ordiellipse() draws a single ellipse representing the "standard deviation' around each cluster in an ordination ...
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Can you use bray-curtis distances to evaluate standardized abundances in an NMDS?
So I'm trying to run an NMDS (using the vegan package in R) for a species X site matrix. Unfortunately the abundances of species are not inherently equal (If you can use that word) meaning that not ...
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How to code a model with the adonis function in R (permanova) for a paired/matched design (epidemiology study)
We have a database of 100 children that are grouped in 50 paired/matched groups (of 2 children) based on co-variables such as sex, c-section, and antibiotic treatments. We obtained the gut microbial ...
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R vegan: RDA vs CCA, which test to answer my research question and which results to report?
(if my question should be cut up into sub-questions please let me know, since all those questions are related I decided to ask them here together as one long question)
Main question
As part of my ...
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Is Hellinger transformation suitable to access species abundance - environmental variable relationships?
While working with a multivariate dataset, I noticed that Hellinger transformation reveals relationships with the dataset I did not see otherwise. The fact that a transformation affects species ...
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Can I use parametric and non-parametric tests in the same publication?
I have a rather difficult dataset. One measurement is non-normal and zero-inflated and could not be transformed to normality. Thus, a glm was used. Another set of ...
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Are NMDS Axis the same calculated for one or more dimensions?
I used NMDS axes of an ecological community as proxys for the community similarity in the different samples. I would like to "quantify" the importance of the different NMDS axis according to the ...
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Stress values of an nMDS analysis and p-values of ordisurf()
I have run a nMDS analysis in vegan and I have a few questions on the stress values of the analysis as well as the p-values associated with utilizing the ordisurf() function (also in vegan).
First of ...
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Test for heteroscedasticity of continuous variables in R similar to betadisper()?
Before using adonis() with factors as explanatory variables in R, it is important to check for group dispersion (betadisper()) so that you know whether your significant p-value from adonis is real, i....
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Appropriate PERMANOVA (adonis) call for Subject Identity? (Terms drop in output)
I am working with a dataset of microbial species abundances at time points (baseline, 8h, 24h, 48h, 72h, 96h, 120h) for 23 subjects and have weighted unifrac, unweighted unifrac, and Bray-curtis ...
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What is the reason behind the name “adonis” (for permutational MANOVA)?
Does any one know why Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance Using Distance Matrices (PERMANOVA) is also called adonis?
See
https://www.r-bloggers.com/adonis-permanova-assumptions
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http://...
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How to perform CCA with block design in R
Following example and data are completely fabricated:
Suppose I am studying grooming behaviour in apes. I have four cages, 8 apes in each (4 females + males). For 24 hours I did an observations with ...
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Betadisper is significant, can I still do ADONIS and ANOSIM?
I'm a grad student in microbial ecology and I'm comparing some bacterial communities in experimental man made ponds. I've run the PCoA, NMDS, and CCA to see how various variables effect or influence ...
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adonis in vegan: order of variables — non nested with one degree of freedom for each
I am trying to understand why the order of variables seems to effect p values for both of those variables for the adonis() (Permutational Multivariate Analysis of ...
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Can MDS coordinates be used as variables in further analyses?
I have calculated an NMDS from vegetation community data taken from two habitat types using the metaMDS() function in vegan. My ...
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Should functional groups' abundances be transformed before using RDA?
I want to run Redundancy Analysis (RDA) with the abundance of different functional groups of plants (7 groups in total: shrubs, coniferous, forbs, etc.) as my response variables.
I know that, for ...
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Should PERMANOVA be used to select factors for Canonical Correspondence Analysis?
I am interested in investigating the relationship between species composition and several environmental factors. My question is whether it is appropriate to use PERMANOVA to select a 'best' ...
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Specification of permutation design in RDA
I am using RDA to study plant communities in various land uses (variable LU with values M, U, etc.). For each land use, I sample 3 to 5 fields (M1, M2, U1, U2, etc). I make 5 measurements for both ...
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Calculation of the Shannon Index plotwise or over the entire population
Imagine I inventarized a forest with 28 plots. Do I calculate the Shannon-Index for each plot and take the average, or should I calculate the Shannon-Index over the whole population?
I use R and the ...
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Residuals of symmetric Procrustes analyses are not symmetric
I am trying to replicate the analysis I saw in a paper. One of the step is to describe the relationships between two data tables. I use the procrustes() function ...
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Displaying large number of text labels on a scatter plot
Having too many species in the data, makes the species labels overlap in a plot of a canonical correspondence analysis. This makes it difficult to interpret. Is there a reasonable possible solution?
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Can I take an average of the values I got from Shannon-Weaver index?
Can I take an average of the values I got from Shannon-Weaver index ? OR Is it wrong to take an average of some values that we get after applying natural logarithm (ln) in an equation, like Shannon-...
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Variation partitioning in vegan. Do variables need to be centered?
I would like to carry out variation partitioning to see how landscape variables and local variables contribute to variation in species richness. Do I need to centre my data prior to analysis? ...
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CCA species coordinates relative to ordination surface
I want to display species coordinates relative to an environmental variable using ordination surface (ordisurf in vegan package)...
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Standard error for Shannon's index in R
I am interested in examining how the species diversity of bird communities change following timber harvest and have used Vegan in R to run my analyses. Below is a sample of my count data. Plot names ...
