A pathway for multivariate analysis of ecological communities using copulas

Abstract We describe a new pathway for multivariate analysis of data consisting of counts of species abundances that includes two key components: copulas, to provide a flexible joint model of individual species, and dissimilarity‐based methods, to integrate information across species and provide a h...

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Main Authors: Marti J. Anderson, Perry de Valpine, Andrew Punnett, Arden E. Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2019-03-01
Series:Ecology and Evolution
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4948