Of course you can plot the distance vs the environmental matrix. That's a reasonable thing to do, just as you would do it for any potentially-correlated data.
Sarah On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:19 AM, Javier Martínez-López <javi.martinez.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: > I guess what I try to show is something like plotting an axis of an NMDS > based on each multivariate distance matrix against each other. I have an > environmental versus a species distance matrix, with a high correlation > based on the Mantel test and I wanted to show it somehow graphically. I will > take a look at path diagrams. Thanks! > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Sarah Goslee <sarah.gos...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I'm not sure what you're asking: a Mantel test result is a single number. >> >> Path diagrams are one potential tool for displaying the results of >> many such tests. >> >> You might also be interested in Mantel correlograms, for spatial pattern. >> >> This isn't an R question, as presented, but I'm curious what you mean. >> >> Sarah >> >> On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 7:22 AM, Javier Martínez-López >> <javi.martinez.lo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > is there a way of graphically represent a Mantel correlation test >> > between >> > two distance/dissimilarity matrices? >> > >> > Thank you and best regards, >> > >> > Javier >> > > > _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology
