Ordination with vegan's metaMDS
I have plant cover data for a number of sample plots and would like to do an ordination plot with the vegan package's metaMDS. The problem is that some of my plots have matching data (for example, two plots have 5% cover by one species and nothing else). Because of this, the dissimilarity measure between these is zero and the ordination doesn't work. It gives me this message: "Error in metaMDSdist(comm, distance = distance, autotransform = autotransform, : Zero dissimilarities are not allowed". Does anyone have any suggestions on how to work with this? Thank you for your help! cheers, Michele
Michele Tobias PhD Student Geography Graduate Group University of California, Davis tobias.michele at gmail.com mmtobias at ucdavis.edu