DATA: Fricke & Steubing (1984) DIRECTORY: \CANOCO\SAMPLES\UNIMODAL\ALGAE PROBLEM: Effect of pollution on algae distribution in rivulets BOOKLET: pp 68-69 ILLUSTRATION OF: + How to obtain a DCCA + How to interpret canonical coefficients + How to test the significance of ordination axes + How, given the first axis, a second ordination axis is extracted and tested + How to define powers of explanatory variables using the Define Interaction Terms option + Detrending-by-polynomials algorithm in DCCA _______________________________________________________________________________ FILE TYPE | FILE NAME | DESCRIPTION -------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------- SPECIES | algae.dta | 34 algae species (scale 0-5) in 25 sites within | | rivulets ENVIRONMENT | pollutio.dta | 7 pollution variables (of which 6 are | | ln-transformed) DERIVED | alg_cca.xxx | solution file of alg_cca.con with text Sample | | scores modified to Xample scores | alg_dcca.xxx | solution file of alg_dcca.con with text Sample | | scores modified to Xample scores | ax1pol2.dta | AX1 and AX1-squared of SamE: scores of solution | | file from pol_dcc2.con, made for the test of | | the second axis of a DCCA with detrending by | | second order polynomials | ax1pol2z.xxx | made by the recipe in section 8.2.9 to test for | | the second axis of a DCCA with detrending by | | second order polynomials | weight.txt | default sample weights of (DC)CA used to modify | | the unweighted RDA project rda_ini.con PROJECTS | alg_dca.con | DCA of algae, interpreted as pollution gradient | alg_cca.con | CCA of algae on pollution | alg_dcca.con | DCCA of algae on pollution (detrending by | | segments) | pol_dcc2.con | DCCA of algae on pollution (detrending by second | | order polynomials) | ax1_cca.con | significance test of the first CCA-axis | ax2_cca0.con | wrong test of second CCA-axis | ax2_cca1.con | correct test of second CCA-axis | ax2_comm.con | significance test of second CCA-axis in the | | command version of CANOCO | ax2_dcca.con | approximate test of second DCCA-axis (detrending | | by segments) | rda_ini.con | RDA of ax1pol2.dta on pollutio.dta | rda_samw.con | weighted version of rda_ini.con (sample weights | | from weight.txt) | ax2pol2z.con | correct test of second DCCA-axis (detrending by | | second order polynomials) -------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------- Fricke, G. & Steubing, L.(1984): Die Verbreitung von Makrophyten und Mikrophyten in Hartwasser-Zufl¸sse des Ederstausees. Archiv f¸r Hydrobiologie, 101: 361-372.