A maximum likelihood approach to non-linear ordination |
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Authors: | Robert W. Johnson David W. Goodall |
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Affiliation: | (1) Queensland Herbarium, 4068 Indooroopilly, Qld., Australia;(2) CSIRO Division of Land Resources Management, 6014 Wembley, W.A., Australia |
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Abstract: | Summary A non-linear method of ordinating vegetation samples based on the fitting of bell-shaped response curves is lescribed. For each species two Gaussian curves were itted, one to quantitative values, where the species was present, the other to probabilities of absence. A maximum likelihood approach was then used to obtain a best approximation of the positions of the samples along a one-dimensional gradient. By an iterative process successively better approximations were obtained.The method was successful in recovering gradients based on hypothetical data. With two sets of real data the gradient produced was more ecologically satisfying and far less distorted than that revealed by principal component analysis. |
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Keywords: | Maximum likelihood Multivariate methods Non-linear ordination Principal component analysis |
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