Consensus RDA across dissimilarity coefficients for canonical ordination of community composition data

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 491-511

  Guillaume Blanchet, F ^a,b,c   Legendre, Pierre ^d   Colin Bergeron, J A ^c   He, Fangliang ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance data; Canonical redundancy analysis (RDA); Carabidae; Dissimilarity coefficient; Presence absence data; Species abundance distribution (SAD); Species presence distribution (SPD)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905650354     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0648.1     Document Type: Article

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