[R-sig-eco] comparing species assemblages- alternatives to ordination?

[Sarah Goslee]

Hi,

The best method depends on the details of your hypothesis and your
data, but you should certainly look through the various approaches
implemented in vegan package.

The list doesn't allow attachments of the type you included. The
preferred way to provide data is using dput(head(mydata, 20))

Sarah

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Vincenzo Ellis
<vincenzoaellis at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm used to comparing assemblages at different geographic locations using
> ordination techniques, where you have abundances or presence-absence of
> species and then look at how they separate in multivariate space.  I'm
> currently working with four sites/locations and want a more rigorous way to
> compare the species assemblages on them maybe using some king of ANOVA
> approach, but I'm not sure how to do it.  I've attached a subset of the
> data in case that makes providing suggestions easier.
>
> Thank you so much!!
>
> Vincenzo
>

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