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DCCA in R?

4 messages · Jonathan Gordon, Attila Lengyel, Peter Solymos

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Hello,

I?m aiming to perform a detrended canonical correspondence analysis on a pollen sequence, to create beta diversity curves for pollen sequences through time. An example of this being done is in Felde (2019) <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00334-019-00726-5>. As far as I can tell, DCCA can?t be done in R packages such as vegan, and can only be completed in Canoco. I?m keen not to use Canoco because it's not open access and the processes behind the interface are obscured, making for a non-repeatable methodology. Please could you advise any way for me to perform a DCCA to obtain my desired results, or of a different method?

Best wishes,
Jonny
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Jonathan,

Have you checked ?vegan::decorana (it is also mentioned in the vignette on
p 2: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/vegan/vignettes/intro-vegan.pdf
)

Cheers,

Peter

On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 11:03 AM Jonathan Gordon <jonathangordon107 at gmail.com>
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Dear Peter,

as far as I know, vegan::decorana does not do DCCA (detrended canonical
correspondence analysis) but the unconstrained DCA. If anyone knows the
answer for Jonathan's question, please, share it with me, I would also be
interested.
Best regards,

Attila

Peter Solymos <solymos at ualberta.ca> ezt ?rta (id?pont: 2020. nov. 5., Cs,
19:19):

  
  
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You are right, Attila, I missed the canonical part. It is either detrended
& unconstrained (decorana) or plain & constrained/canonical (cca).

Cheers,

Peter
On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 3:27 PM Attila Lengyel <lengyel.at at gmail.com> wrote: