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<td valign="top"><h1 align="center"><strong><font size="5" color="#FF0000">Comparison of </font><font
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and Canoco</font></strong></h1>
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<td class="xl25" style="height:13.2pt;width:70pt" align="center"><em><strong><font
face="Arial">PC-ORD</font></strong></em> 4</td>
<td class="xl25" style="width:48pt" align="center">Canoco 4</td>
<td style="width:304pt">(Note: Canoco features are from the Canoco website)</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Analysis size limits</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl24" style="height:13.2pt" x:num="32000" align="center">32,000</td>
<td class="xl24" x:num="25000" align="center">25,000</td>
<td>Main matrix, rows</td>
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<td class="xl24" style="height:13.2pt" x:num="32000" align="center">32,000</td>
<td class="xl24" x:num="5000" align="center">5,000</td>
<td>Main matrix, columns</td>
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<td class="xl24" style="height:13.2pt" x:num="1024000000" align="center">1,024,000,000</td>
<td class="xl24" x:num="250000" align="center">250,000</td>
<td>Main matrix, nonzero items</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Graphics size limits</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl24" style="height:13.2pt" x:num="32000" align="center">32,000</td>
<td class="xl23" x:num align="center">500</td>
<td>Sample units</td>
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<td class="xl24" style="height:13.2pt" x:num="32000" align="center">32,000</td>
<td class="xl23" x:num align="center">500</td>
<td>Species</td>
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<td class="xl24" style="height:13.2pt" x:num="32000" align="center">32,000</td>
<td class="xl23" x:num align="center">30</td>
<td>Environmental variables</td>
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<td class="xl22" x:str="Graphics "><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Graphics</strong></font> </td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Publication-quality graphics</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Biplot</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Joint Plot</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Triplot</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Vector Overlay</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Rotation</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Quantitative Overlay</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Grid overlay</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Successional vectors</td>
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<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Contouring quantiative overlays</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Transformations</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">* CEdit</td>
<td>Monotonic transformations</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">* CEdit</td>
<td>Relativizations</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Multiply by or add a constant</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Beals smoothing</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Matrix Operations</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Transpose</td>
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<td>Multiply by secondary matrix</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Delete columns or rows</td>
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<td>Delete rows or columns with < N non-zero values</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Shuffle data</td>
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<td>Weighted average</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Import/Export File Formats</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Spreadsheet (*.wk1)</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>PC-ORD compact</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Database</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Cornell condensed</td>
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<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Cornell full format</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Comma-separated values (*.csv)</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Ordination</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td x:str="Bray-Curtis (Polar) Ordination ">Bray-Curtis (Polar) Ordination </td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Canonical Correspondence Analysis (CCA)</td>
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<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>CCA with covariables</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA, DECORANA)</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMS = NMDS = NMMDS)</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Principal Components Analysis (PCA)</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Reciprocal Averaging (Correspondence Analysis = CA = RA)</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Weighted Averaging</td>
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<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Redundancy Analysis (RDA)</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Simple randomization tests</td>
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<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Randomization tests for special designs</td>
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<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Forward selection of environmental variables</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Correlation between ordination and original distances</td>
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<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td>Principal Coordinates (PCoA)</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Distance measures</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Sorensen Distance (= Bray & Curtis)</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td x:str="Relative Sorensen Distance ">Relative Sorensen Distance </td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td x:str="Jaccard Distance ">Jaccard Distance </td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td x:str="Euclidean (Pythagorean) Distance ">Euclidean (Pythagorean) Distance </td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td x:str="Relativized Euclidean Distance ">Relativized Euclidean Distance </td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td x:str="Correlation ">Correlation </td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">*</td>
<td x:str="Chi-squared Distance ">Chi-squared Distance </td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td x:str="Squared Euclidean Distance ">Squared Euclidean Distance </td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Summary statistics</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Tree summary tables</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Diversity Indices</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Outlier Analysis</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Seek groups</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>TWINSPAN</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Cluster Analysis</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Indicator Species Analysis</td>
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<td class="xl22"><font color="#FF0000"><strong>Compare groups</strong></font></td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Multi-Response Permutation Procedures (MRPP)</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Mantel Test</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Species lists</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">*</td>
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<td>Species-area Curves</td>
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<td class="xl23" style="height:13.2pt" align="center">$299.00</td>
<td class="xl23" align="center">$678.00</td>
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