Community pattern analysis: A method for quantifying community mosaic structure |
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Authors: | David J Gibson P Greig-Smith |
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Institution: | (1) School of Plant Biology, University College of North Wales, Bangor, Gwynedd, U.K.;(2) Present address: Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Ackert Hall, 66506 Manhattan, Kansas, USA |
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Abstract: | A method of quantifying community spatial patterns, community pattern analysis, is described. It is proposed that ordination analysis is used to obtain an integrated score for each quadrat from transect data. For the data presented here, separate ordinations were made of both floristic and environmental (soils) data. The ordination axis scores are then analysed using two or three-term local variance analysis to quantify the scales of community pattern. Correlation analyses allow the relationship between the vegetation and soils data (as represented by ordination axis scores), and other environmental data to be investigated at defined scales. The advantages of this method, that employs the joint application of conventional methods, are that it includes the influence of all species in the analysis, and that multiple uncorrelated scales of pattern within a community are identified. |
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Keywords: | Detrended correspondance analysis Grassland Ordination technique Spatial pattern analysis |
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