Detrended correspondence analysis: An improved ordination technique

By M. Hill, Hugh G. Gauch. Vegetatio, 2004

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Food Science, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Relationships between bird species and tree species assemblages in forested habitats of eastern North America (2005, methodology): “Axes are scaled such that on average species distribution curves have unit standard deviation (Hill & Gauch, 1980).”
The distribution and diversity of Chironomidae (Insecta: Diptera) in western Finnish Lapland, with special emphasis on shallow lakes (2005, methodology): “Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA; Hill & Gauch, 1980), with detrending by segments, nonlinear rescaling of axes, and down-weighting of rare taxa, was performed on the square root transformed chironomid species abundance data to determine the lengths of gradient and to estimate the amount of…”
Cryptogamic epiphytes in primary and recovering upper montane oak forests of Costa Rica – species richness, community composition and ecology (2005, methodology): “An updated matrix of 437 plots · 132 species, following removal of species with less than three occurrences, was subject to Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA, Hill and Gauch 1980 ) and non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMS, Kruskal 1964; Clarke 1993), to obtain a graphical depiction of comm”
Comparison of species composition between different grassland management treatments after 25 years (2002, background): “A full turnover in species composition is expected in 4 sd, a 50% change in species composition is expected in 1 - 1.3 sd (Hill & Gauch 1980).”
Abiotic and vertebrate seed dispersal in the Brazilian Atlantic forest: implications for forest regeneration (2002, methodology): “We also applied the percentage of species within these six families in the 16 plots to a detrended correspondence analysis (DCA; sensu Hill and Gauch, 1980), using CANOCO version 3.11.5 (ter Braak, 1987–1992).”
Invasion of a Habitat-Forming Seaweed: Effects on Associated Biota (2004, methodology): “Detrended correspondence analysis (DCA, Hill and Gauch 1980 ) was used to examine the epiphytic assemblages on the different Fucus species and sites, and which epiphytic species discriminated best between the two Fucus species.”
Fine-scale vegetation distribution in a cool temperate peatland (2006, methodology): “We examined the groupings among species using indirect gradient analysis and detrended correspondence analysis (DCA; Hill and Gauch 1980) and related the species associations with environmental gradients using canonical correspondence analysis (CCA) with the program CANOCO version 4.”
Experimental effects of sediment deposition on the structure and function of macroinvertebrate assemblages in temperate streams (2011, methodology): “Prior to any further analysis, we used detrended correspondence analysis to parameterize variations in invertebrate assemblages among sample Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA; Hill and Gauch, 1980).”
Complementarity of epi- and endozoochory of plant seeds by free ranging donkeys (2005, methodology): “In addition, the logtransformed dataset of all zoochory samples together was used for Detrended Correspondence Analysis (DCA) (Hill and Gauch 1980), using the program CANOCO 4.”
A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 2. Quantifying beta diversity and related phenomena (2010, methodology): “Many studies have used the first axis of detrended correspondence analysis (DCA) to quantify ‘‘beta diversity’’ (Hill and Gauch 1980, Økland 1986, Eilertsen et al. 1990, Økland et al. 1990, Naranjo et al. 1998).”
Trophic structure in a large assemblage of phyllostomid bats in Panama (2004, methodology): “Detrending techniques (Hill and Gauch 1980, ter Braak 1987) are specifically deviced to correct these problems.”
Communities of wood‐inhabiting bryophytes and fungi on dead beech logs in Europe – reflecting substrate quality or shaped by climate and forest conditions? (2014, methodology): “The overall structure of the fungi and the bryophyte dataset was explored by detrended correspondence analysis (DCA; Hill & Gauch, 1980) in PCord 4.25 (McCune & Mefford, 1999).”