Ok St U: Palmer-2011
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Title
| Ordination Methods for Ecologists |
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Author
| Palmer, M. |
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Abstract/Summary Statement
| This ordination web page is designed to address some of the most frequently asked questions about ordination. Ordination is a widely-used family of methods which attempts to reveal the relationships between ecological communities. The site is geared towards the student and the practitioner rather than the ordination specialist. |
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Table of Contents
| Subjects include: 1. General and Reference 2. Statistics and Background 3. Practical details for running ordination 4. Indirect Gradient Analysis 5. Direct Gradient Analysis 6. Ecological data, transformation and standardization |
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Citation
| Palmer, M., 2011, Ordination methods for ecologists, Oklahoma State University: Stillwater, Oklahoma, last accessed March 12, 2012 at http://ordination.okstate.edu/index.html. |
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Method Source
| Ok St U |
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Source Organization Country
| USA |
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Publication Year
| 2011 |
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Special Notes
| Online reference material |
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Item Type
| Website |
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Publication Source Type
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Academic Institution |
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Purpose
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Data analysis |
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Design or Data Analysis Objectives
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Communities & populations Compare locations Compare treatments Compliance with a threshold Continuous (sensor) data Exploring/summarizing data Interpolate concentrations Probability survey Relationships & correlations Spatial trends Temporal trends |
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Complexity
| Medium |
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Media Emphasized
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Biological |
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Media Subcategory
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Special Topics
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Assessing and managing autocorrelation Characterizing the uncertainty of an estimated value Evaluating whether data follow a certain (e.g., normal) distribution Identifying outliers |
