Canonical Correspondence Analysis in Order to Link Environmental Variables to Marine Biological Communities

Annoni, Paola

Canonical Correspondence Analysis in Order to Link Environmental Variables to Marine Biological Communities

CLADAG 2003: Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society. Book of Short papers, CLUEB Bologna (IT), pp. 25-28, September 22-24, 2003

4 Pages Posted: 4 May 2005

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Paola Annoni

Università degli Studi di Milano

Abstract

The goal of the paper is to identify particular patterns in the composition of macroinvertebrate population living in an open Italian coastal area. Among various statistical methods, Canonical Correspondence Analysis, a constrained version of Correspondence Analysis, is applied. The method is particularly suitable to define the link between the species and the environment by embedding the environmental data within the biotic analysis.

Keywords: Canonical Correspondence Analysis, Species-Environment Relationships

JEL Classification: Q51, Q57

Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation

Annoni, Paola, Canonical Correspondence Analysis in Order to Link Environmental Variables to Marine Biological Communities. CLADAG 2003: Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society. Book of Short papers, CLUEB Bologna (IT), pp. 25-28, September 22-24, 2003, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=713241