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SIMPER (Similarity Percentages)
Shade plots are an excellently succinct way of displaying the abundance (or other quantity) of al...
Coherent sets of abiotic variables (N Sea biomarkers)
Save the workspace as Linnhe ws, close it and re-open the data on a suite of biomarkers (‘health’...
‘Mondrian’ shade plots, with sample and variable boundaries
A final possibility for this Loch Linnhe data is to display both horizontal and vertical division...
Shade plots showing coherent sets & variable boundaries
In order to display a shade plot carrying precisely the same information as the coherent species ...
Line plots vs Shade plots
For this (reduced) Loch Linnhe data matrix, e.g. with the selection of 50 species made in Data1, ...
Running Type 3 SIMPROF
Type 3 SIMPROF can be run as a single test on the species set defined by the active matrix (which...
Running Type 2 SIMPROF
A Type 2 SIMPROF test is not part of a Wizards>Coherent plots run, and there is a good case for c...
Coherence plots wizard & Types 2/3 SIMPROF; (L. Linnhe macrofauna)
The third item on the Wizards menu is Coherence plots. This is a combination of SIMPROF runs with...
Other tree diagrams & SIMPROF (Bristol Ch. zooplankton)
For the final example of the options in shade plot, save and close Exe ws and return to the Brist...
Nearest neighbour ordering
The final option that Reorder offers, attempting to find a useful ordering on a 1-d axis of a non...
Ordering by a worksheet variable
The core task faced by the Special>Reorder operation is to reduce what is inevitably a high-d sim...
Clustering on species and samples (Exe nematodes)
The time-averaged Exe nematode community data were used extensively in Section 8 to illustrate nM...
Save sample/ variable order
A final choice on the Special dialog for shade plots can be useful when planning to compare plots...
3-d shade plot
A further option on the initial Special menu for a shade plot (✓3D>Opacity (0-100): 75) turns the...
Special menu for shade plot; Shade plot colours
With OK to get back to the first dialog screen under Special, we now look at the options availabl...
(King Wrasse diets)
A Western Australian study of the dietary assemblages of a single fish species (King Wrasse) were...
(Ekofisk oilfield macrofauna)
A good example of how ordering of species in a shade plot can aid interpretation is seen for macr...
Seriate operation; Seriate a shade plot dendrogram
Slightly more detail on how the seriate options are constructed, on both samples and species axes...
Shade Plot options in Matrix display
The Graph options taken automatically by Matrix Display to produce the final shade plot output ar...
Branches created in the Explorer tree
The first branch takes the square root of the full matrix Frierfjord macrofauna counts, giving Da...