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3.1 Cluster analysis
The previous chapter has shown how to replace the original data matrix with pairwise similarities...
2.6 More on resemblance measures
On the grounds that it is better to walk before you try running, discussion of comparisons betwee...
2.5 Dissimilarity coefficients
The converse concept to similarity is that of dissimilarity, the degree to which two samples are ...
2.3 Presence/absence data
As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, quantitative uncertainty may make it desirable to ...
2.2 Example: Loch Linnhe macrofauna
A trivial example, used in this and the following chapter to illustrate simple manual computation...
2.1 Similarity for quantitative data matrices
Data matrix The available biological data is assumed to consist of an array of p rows (species) a...
1.8 Example: Nutrient enrichment experiment, Solbergstrand
Table 1.7. Nutrient enrichment experiment, Solbergstrand mesocosm, Norway {N}. Meiofaunal abund...
1.7 Multivariate techniques
Table 1.5 summarises some multivariate methods for the four stages, starting with three descripti...
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...