Testing of null hypotheses in exploratory community analyses: similarity profiles and biota-environment linkage

By K. Robert Clarke, P. Somerfield, Raymond N. Gorley. 2008

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A generalised analysis of similarities (ANOSIM) statistic for designs with ordered factors (2021, methodology): “…among samples as determined by appropriate resemblance measures (Clarke et al. 2006) using clustering (Clarke et al. 2016) and ordination, and to analyse these patterns using a range of hypothesis tests and associated analyses (e.g. Clarke et al. 2008), primarily based on ranked resemblances.”
Forest fragmentation drives Atlantic forest of northeastern Brazil to biotic homogenization (2011, methodology): “Simprof procedure has been adopted to validate observed groupings in cluster analyses as it verifies whether the observed structure of communities results from chance (Clarke et al., 2008).”
Conservation biogeography of the Antarctic (2012, methodology): “To ascertain the level of structure present in the groups formed by each dendrogram, a similarity profile routine (SIMPROF – Primer v6, see Clarke et al., 2008) was run with 10,000 simulations and the stopping rule specified at the 5% significance level.”
Primacy of seascape connectivity effects in structuring coral reef fish assemblages (2012, methodology): “The BEST routine was used to identify seascape and coral reef variables that best explained patterns of similarity in reef fish assemblages (Clarke et al. 2008).”
Deep-sea nematode assemblage has not recovered 26 years after experimental mining of polymetallic nodules (Clarion-Clipperton Fracture Zone, Tropical Eastern Pacific) (2011, background): “This procedure selects those taxa for which the relative abundance is best correlated with the spatial pattern of sampling (Clarke and Warwick, 2001; Clarke et al., 2008).”
Inverse analysis in non-parametric multivariate analyses: distinguishing groups of associated species which covary coherently across samples (2013, methodology): “In this paper we explain, and give examples of, different ways in which Similarity Profiles analysis can be used to understand relationships among variables in multivariate datasets, extending the previous use of themethodology for identifying sample patterns (Clarke et al., 2008).”
Taxonomic Discrimination of Phytoplankton by Spectral Fluorescence (2010, methodology): “We can test this by comparing the structure of the matrices based on the pigment and AOA data, using the BEST test in PRIMER-E (Clarke et al. 2008).”
Fatty acids as dietary tracers in benthic food webs (2012, positive): “…test whether groups are significantly different from each other; however, the similarity profile (SIMPROF) analysis in the PRIMER software package (Clarke & Gorley 2006) can be applied to test whether each node of the dendrogram represents a statistically significant division (Clarke et al. 2008).”
Biodiversity patterns in a macroinvertebrate community of a temporary pond network (2014, background): “05 level and yielded a dendrogram of the results, otherwise known as a linkage tree (Clarke et al., 2008).”