[R-sig-eco] Intepreting a plot from a "constrained" NMDS

[stephen sefick]

A way that may work is use the axis scores as y in a regression- this
seems like it would let you interpret how the communities are
distributed in species space.  Just a thought

Stephen Sefick

On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Manuel Spínola <mspinola10 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> Is there any reference or document on how to interpret a "constrained"
> non-metrical multidimensional scaling using ecological data?  By
> "constrained" I mean after fitting environmental covariables, using, for
> example, the "envfit" function in the vegan package.  Is it possible to
> interpret the resulting plot in the same way that a constrained ordination,
> for example CCA?
> Thank you very much in advance.
> Best,
>
> Manuel
>
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