DATA: B. Post (1983: unpublished) DIRECTORY: \CANOCO\SAMPLES\UNIMODAL\WEEDS PROBLEM: Detection of a spatial gradient in vegetation data BOOKLET: pp 79 ILLUSTRATION OF: + How to destandardize canonical coefficients + The arbitrariness of the sign of an ordination axis + How to interpret large "Covariable influence" without covariable data + Means, standard deviations and correlations in CCA versus RDA + How to obtain means, standard deviations and correlations of variables _______________________________________________________________________________ FILE TYPE | FILE NAME | DESCRIPTION -------------+---------------+------------------------------------------------- SPECIES | weeds.dta | counts of 13 arable weeds across a barley field | | (96 plots) ENVIRONMENT | xy_coord.dta | spatial coordinates of the plot centres PROJECTS | trend.con | CCA of weeds on spatial coordinates | cca_sqrt.con | CCA of weeds on spatial coordinates | | (square-roots of counts) | rda_sqrt.con | RDA of weeds on spatial coordinates | | (square-roots of counts) -------------+---------------+-------------------------------------------------