A Theory of Gradient Analysis

By C. T. ter Braak, I. C. Prentice. 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Hypervolume concepts in niche‐ and trait‐based ecology (2018, background): “Further developments likely were an outgrowth of growing interest in gradient analyses (Whittaker 1967) and ordination (Austin 1985, ter Braak and Prentice 1988).”
Role of niche restrictions and dispersal in the composition of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal communities (2007, methodology): “We then used redundancy analysis (RDA), which constrains the taxa and samples to axes determined by supplied environmental variables (in this case, soil variable; ter Braak & Prentice 1988).”
Relationships between plant traits and climate in the Mediterranean region: A pollen data analysis (2004, background): “…is appropriate (and preferred to Principal Component Analysis) when the aim is to analyse species or trait data along environmental gradients, where some or all species or traits are likely to show unimodal rather than monotonic relationships to the underlying gradients (ter Braak & Prentice 1988).”
The past ecology of Abies alba provides new perspectives on future responses of silver fir forests to global warming (2013, methodology): “We used multivariate ordination techniques (detrended correspondance analysis, DCA; program Canoco 4.5; Smilauer 1994) to check for similarities and dissimilarities in the different vegetation types across space and time (Birks and Gordon 1985, ter Braak and Prentice 1988).”
Dragonfly associations (Insecta: Odonata) in relation to habitat variables: a multivariate approach (2003, methodology): “For analysing the relationship between the environmental variables and species occurrence, a Detrended Canonical Correspondence Analysis (DCCA) was performed using CANOCO 4.0 (Ter Braak & Prentice, 1988).”
Observing Changing Ecological Diversity in the Anthropocene (2013, background): “In a foundational paper, Ter Braak and Prentice (1988) wrote, “All species occur in a characteristic, limited range of habitats, and within their range, they tend to be most abundant around their particular environmental optimum”.”
The AQEM multimetric system for the southern Italian Apennines: assessing the impact of water quality and habitat degradation on pool macroinvertebrates in Mediterranean rivers (2004, methodology): “A PCA analysis was thus performed, a linear method being appropriate when the length of the gradient is short (Ter Braak & Prentice, 1988).”
Testing the significance of canonical axes in redundancy analysis (2011, background): “These linear combi- nations are the defining properties of canonical axes in the presentation of RDA by ter Braak & Prentice (1988) and ter Braak (1995).”
Patterns of composition and species richness of crustaceans and aquatic insects along environmental gradients in Mediterranean water bodies (2008, methodology): “An unimodal methodology was used because in the dataset of the first partial-CA the zeros are abundant (ter Braak & Šmilauer, 2002), while in the second partial-CA, the length of gradients, obtained by means of a DCA, were more than 3 SD (ter Braak & Prentice, 1988).”
Feeding ecology, population structure and distribution of Pomatoschistus microps (Krøyer, 1838) and Pomatoschistus minutus (Pallas, 1770) in a temperate estuary, Portugal (2006, methodology): “This multivariate technique allows one to directly relate the pattern of community variation with the pattern of environmental variation (Ter Braak and Prentice, 1988).”