Distance-based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 89-101

  Warton, David I ^a   Wright, Stephen T ^a   Wang, Yi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bray Curtis distance; Community composition; Generalised linear models; Mean variance relationship; Multi dimensional scaling; Multivariate analysis; PERMANOVA; SIMPER; Species by site data

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867389652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00127.x     Document Type: Article

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