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1.6 Example: Garroch Head macrofauna
describe the sampling of a transect of 12 sites across the sewage-sludge disposal ground at Garr...
1.5 Example: Loch Linnhe macrofauna
Table 1.4. Loch Linnhe macrofauna {L}. Abundance/biomass matrix (part only); one (pooled) set o...
1.4 Distributional techniques
Table 1.3. Distributional techniques. Summary of analyses for the four stages. A less condense...
1.3 Example: Frierfjord macrofauna
The first example is from the IOC/GEEP practical workshop on biological effects of pollutants (),...
Appendix 1: Index of example data
The following is a list of all (real) data sets used as examples in the text, where they are refe...
18.5 Example: Fal estuary macrofauna
The soft-sediment macrobenthic communities from five creeks of the Fal estuary, SW England, {f} w...
18.4 Example: Loch Creran macrobenthos
collected a set of 256 soft-sediment macrobenthic samples along a transect in Loch Creran, Scotl...
18.3 ‘Bootstrap average’ regions
The idea of the (univariate) bootstrap () is that our best estimate of the distribution of values...
18.2 Example: Indonesian reef corals, S. Tikus
The point is made here in Fig 18.1 for the Shannon diversity of coral community transects (% cove...
18.1 Means plots
Several examples have been seen in previous chapters of the advantages of viewing ordination plot...
17.12 Examples
Example: Island fish species lists Fish species lists extracted from FishBase (www. fishbase.org)...
17.11 Taxonomic dissimilarity
A natural extension of the ideas of this chapter is from $\alpha$- or ‘spot’ diversity indices to...
17.10 Concluding remarks on taxonomic distinctness
Early applications of taxonomic distinctness ideas in marine science can be found in for demersa...
17.9 Joint (AvTD, VarTD) analyses
The histogram and funnel plots of Figs. 17.7 and 17.8 are univariate analyses, concentrating on o...
17.8 Variation in taxonomic distinctness, $\Lambda ^ +$
VarTD was defined in equation (17.7), as the variance of the taxonomic distances {$\omega _ {ij}$...
17.7 Example: N Europe groundfish surveys
An investigation of the taxonomic structure of demersal fish assemblages in the North Sea, Englis...
17.6 Example: UK free-living nematodes
examined 14 species lists from a range of different habitats and impacted/undisturbed UK areas (...
17.5 ‘Expected distinctness’ tests
Species master list The construction of taxonomic distinctness indices from simple species lists ...
17.4 Other relatedness measures
The remainder of this chapter deals only with data in the form of a species list for a locality (...
17.3 Examples: Ekofisk oil-field and Tees Bay soft-sediment macrobenthos
The earlier Fig. 14.4 demonstrated a change in the sediment macrofaunal communities around the Ek...