Dear all,
I wonder if anyone can help me with specifying a right model for my analysis. I am a beginner to lme methods. I was unfortunately not able to find a solution to my problem on my own. Data structure: I have sampled monthly 6 basins during two hydrological cycles, and I have taken several (2 to 4) samples (replicate) for each basin and month. Im trying to relate Shannon diversity to some environmental variables, taking away pseudoreplication. Thus, I have tried an lme model with time and basin as random factors. I have put hydrological cycle as a fixed factor, since Im interested in quantifying their effect. But Im not sure if there are other possibilities to do this. This is my model structure: Model1<-lme(shannon<-log(chla+1)*hyd_cycle+toc*hyd_cycle, random=~time|basin) Note that I have not put replicate within the random structure (random=~time|basin/replicate), and this is my major concern. Im not sure if I have to include replicate in the random structure, since replicates are randomly taken each time, and so are not repeated measures within the basins. All books and internet information that I have looked at the moment are examples with repeated measures within blocks (e.g. repeated measures of the same plant and treatment). Can anyone help me with this? I would appreciate any hints and suggestions Stéphanie [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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