Re: [R-sig-eco] forward selection RDA after controlling for constraints

2013-07-11 Thread Ingolf Kuehn
Dear Stephen, I assume that your approach will account for spatial structure (large scale spatial trend), i.e. remove spatial structure prior to analysis and hence also remove spatially structured but ecologically potentially important variables. This approach, however, does not necessarily

[R-sig-eco] forward selection RDA after controlling for constraints

2013-07-10 Thread Stephen Sefick
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

Re: [R-sig-eco] forward selection RDA after controlling for constraints

2013-07-10 Thread Jari Oksanen
On 10/07/2013, at 21:00 PM, Stephen Sefick wrote: 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

Re: [R-sig-eco] forward selection RDA after controlling for constraints

2013-07-10 Thread stephen sefick
Jari, Thank you for the quick reply. Maybe I should use something like PCNM first with the lat/long data to then use in the rda? I really appreciate all of your help. Are there anyother/better ways to account for spatial autocorrelation. I guess I need to show that spatial autocorellation