Multivariate testing

LP Lisa Petersson
DL Delphine Lariviere
EH Emma Holmström
ML Matts Lindbladh
AF Adam Felton
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To test for differences in community compositions between 55 and 80-year-old stands, among the different taxa, we used a permutational multivariate analysis of variance (permanova). The number of stands in which the species was registered (1–10) was used as a measurement of abundance in the multivariate analysis. The test was run in vegan R-package ‘adonis’ with 999 permutations [29]. Each taxon was tested separately for Norway spruce and Scots pine and stand age was set as an explanatory variable in the model.

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