capscale() + anova.cca() for unequal sample sizes
Dear all, I perform canonical analysis of principal coordinates (vegan::capscale) followed by permutation test (vegan::anova.cca) to determine the variance explained by sevaral environmental factors in my experimental design. My problem is, the data I have contain unequal sample sizes in some of the factors and I am not confident about if it is okay to use CAP and
permutation test. The code that I wrote:
rhizo.cap <- capscale(rhizo.dist ~ AMF + Condition(Field + Dev_Stage + Fertilizer), data = rhizo.env) anova.cca(rhizo.cap, permutations = 5000) I do the very same thing for the other three factors too (~ Field + Condition(AMF + Dev_Stage + Fertilizer) and so on). Factor AMF has two levels containing the same amount of samples in each but the other three factors (field, dev_stage and fertilizer) have unequal sizes. Is my approach correct? As far as I know unequal sample size is not suitable for PERMANOVA but I don't know about permutation test. If my approach is wrong, what can I use instead? Thanks in advance for any help. Best regards, Akyol