Chapter 11: Linking community analyses to environmental variables
11.1 Introduction
Approach In many studies, the biotic data is matched by a suite of environmental variables measur...
11.2 Example: Garroch Head macrofauna
For the 12 sampling stations (Fig. 8.3) across the sewage-sludge dump ground at Garroch Head {G},...
11.3 Linking biota to univariate environmental measures (and examples)
Univariate community measures If the biotic data are best summarised by one, or a few, simple uni...
11.4 Linking biota to multivariate environmental patterns
The intuitive premise adopted here is that if the suite of environmental variables responsible fo...
11.5 Further ‘BEST’ variations
Entering variables in groups In some contexts, it makes good sense to utilise an a priori group s...
11.6 Linkage trees (and example)
The idea of linkage trees¶ is most easily understood in the context of a particular example, so F...
11.7 Concluding remarks
For this chapter as a whole, two final points need to be made. The topic of experimental and fiel...