Testing the significance of canonical axes in redundancy analysis

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 269-277

  Legendre, Pierre ^a   Oksanen, Jari ^b   ter Braak, Cajo J F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Canonical redundancy analysis (RDA); Numerical simulations; Power; Tests of significance; Type I error

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858309564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2010.00078.x     Document Type: Article

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