Indirect gradient analysis - Alaska Geobotany Center
Indirect gradient analysis - Alaska Geobotany Center
Indirect gradient analysis - Alaska Geobotany Center
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Plot ordination<br />
• Numbered points are<br />
plots.<br />
• Plots 19 and 15 are<br />
very similar to each<br />
other in terms of<br />
species composition.<br />
• Plots 19 and 25 are<br />
dissimilar to each<br />
other.<br />
Detrended correspondence <strong>analysis</strong> of Gutter Tor data, Kent and Coker, 1992<br />
• The axes are<br />
functions of species<br />
similarity and have no<br />
environmental<br />
meaning on their own,<br />
but can be correlated<br />
with environmental<br />
data from the study<br />
plots.<br />
• The area contained by<br />
the axes is called the<br />
“ordination space”.
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