Dear List, I am relatively new to this area of ecology and R, coming from a phylogenetic background. I am looking to quantify functional trait diversity in in order to plot global functional trait diversity hotspots. My trait data are categorical and all indicies of functional diversity require continuous data.
My approach was to generate a distance matrix based on the Gower method - i have done this with vegdist- and then i was planning on running a pcoa on these to generate the continuous data to use in the calculation of functional diversity indicies. I have two questions:- First, does this make sense, i appreciate i will loose information this way. Second, I have looked at vegan but can not see a way to run a pcoa on the output from a vegdist analysis, is this possible and once again does this make sense? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Chris _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
