A way that may work is use the axis scores as y in a regression- this seems like it would let you interpret how the communities are distributed in species space. Just a thought
Stephen Sefick On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 11:58 AM, Manuel Spínola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list members, > > Is there any reference or document on how to interpret a "constrained" > non-metrical multidimensional scaling using ecological data? By > "constrained" I mean after fitting environmental covariables, using, for > example, the "envfit" function in the vegan package. Is it possible to > interpret the resulting plot in the same way that a constrained ordination, > for example CCA? > Thank you very much in advance. > Best, > > Manuel > > -- > Manuel Spínola, Ph.D. > Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre > Universidad Nacional > Apartado 1350-3000 > Heredia > COSTA RICA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Teléfono: (506) 2277-3598 > Fax: (506) 2237-7036 > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-ecology mailing list > R-sig-ecology@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology > -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
