Dear Zoltan,
Thank you for this interesting suggestion. I'm wondering if you might be
able to suggest any papers that have used this approach in past?
It does have the advantage of maintaining many of the community patterns
that are often associated with functional diversity indices - i.e. total
Dear r-sig-ecology listers,
I am involved in a study whose objective is the see if there relationships
between the functional diversity of the fish community and environmental
factors of the sample site for a number of sites in a bounded environment.
Specifically, we are looking at the parameters
Dear Marc,
Try the permutation of trait values! Such permutation does not change
any of the patterns that you mentioned and probably wanted to be
constrained.
On the other hand, it removes the correlation between traits and
environment, and also correlation between traits and abundance.
