Hello all,

I would like to run this by everyone and maybe get some hints as to what R functions I could use for this. Ok, so I have macroinvertebrate assemblage data from across the SE. I would like to control for geographic distance (lat/long), Watershed area, and year before submitting these data to an RDA with the rest of the environmental data using a variable selection technique.

Does it make sense to detrend the data using a mlm on hellinger transfomed abundances with the above env variables as regressors and then submit the residuals to rda with the rest of the env variables I am interested in?

Many thanks for all of the help.
kindest regards,


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