I'm trying to run a MANOVA on shoreline habitat data.  The data was
collected in an odd way.  For each reach of shoreline, data was collected
for each habitat variable (shade, veg and IWM).  Each variable was
described as having a certain percentage of a particular category of the
variable.  For example, (not from my data) Shade (the habitat variable) at
Reach 1 was comprised of 50% "No Shade (one of the categories)", 25%
"6%-25% shade", and 25% "Greater than 75% shade."  Therefore each of the
three variables are described by amounts of each of the categories and the
percentages always equal 100 when added together.
So my question is, how do I run a MANOVA on this to determine if the
reaches are statistically different in R?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
  Reach  No Shade 1-5% Shade 6-25% Shade 26-75%Shade >75% Shade <25% Veg 26-50%
Veg 51-75%Veg >75% Veg No IWM 1-10% IMW 11-50%IWM >50% IWM  MS01 0.5609
0.2631 0.0103 0.1658 0 0 0.0294 0 0.9706 0.6693 0.2281 0.1026 0  MS02 0.2916
0.5672 0.0623 0.0789 0 0.0222 0 0 0.9778 0.1312 0.4787 0.1011 0.289  MS03
0.477 0.0411 0.0609 0.184 0.2371 0.0411 0 0 0.9589 0.477 0 0.225 0.298  MS04
0.7158 0.2037 0 0.0805 0 0.2569 0 0 0.7431 0.4589 0.2037 0.3374 0  MS05
0.4938 0.5062 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.558 0.442 0 0

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