The ecodist Package for Dissimilarity-based Analysis of Ecological Data Export

@article{citeulike:2372944, abstract = {Ecologists are concerned with the relationships between species composition and environmental framework incorporating space explicitly is an extremely flexible tool for answering these questions. The R package ecodist brings together methods for working with dissimilarities, including some not available in other R packages. We present some of the features of ecodist, particularly simple and partial Mantel tests, and make recommendations for their effective use. Although the partial Mantel test is often used to account for the effects of space, the assumption of linearity greatly reduces its effectiveness for complex spatial patterns. We introduce a modification of the Mantel correlogram designed to overcome this restriction and allow consideration of complex nonlinear structures. This extension of the method allows the use of partial multivariate correlograms and tests of relationship between variables at different spatial scales. Some of the possibilities are demonstrated using both artificial data and data from an ongoing study of plant community composition in grazinglands of the northeastern United States.}, author = {Goslee, Sarah C. and Urban, Dean L.}, citeulike-article-id = {2372944}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v22/i07}, journal = {Journal of Statistical Software}, keywords = {0print, 0top, 2r-library}, month = {September}, number = {4}, posted-at = {2008-02-14 08:43:52}, priority = {2}, title = {The ecodist Package for Dissimilarity-based Analysis of Ecological Data}, url = {http://www.jstatsoft.org/v22/i07}, volume = {22}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2372944 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2372944 N2 - Ecologists are concerned with the relationships between species composition and environmental framework incorporating space explicitly is an extremely flexible tool for answering these questions. The R package ecodist brings together methods for working with dissimilarities, including some not available in other R packages. We present some of the features of ecodist, particularly simple and partial Mantel tests, and make recommendations for their effective use. Although the partial Mantel test is often used to account for the effects of space, the assumption of linearity greatly reduces its effectiveness for complex spatial patterns. We introduce a modification of the Mantel correlogram designed to overcome this restriction and allow consideration of complex nonlinear structures. This extension of the method allows the use of partial multivariate correlograms and tests of relationship between variables at different spatial scales. Some of the possibilities are demonstrated using both artificial data and data from an ongoing study of plant community composition in grazinglands of the northeastern United States. IS - 4 JF - Journal of Statistical Software TI - The ecodist Package for Dissimilarity-based Analysis of Ecological Data VL - 22 KW - 0print KW - 0top KW - 2r-library AU - Goslee, Sarah AU - Urban, Dean PY - 2007/09// UR - http://www.jstatsoft.org/v22/i07 ER -