Alternatives to ordination in R: Visualizing community change relative to a specific point (CC206)

April 21, 2022 • PD Schloss • 1 min read • •

An ordination has a limited set of uses. But are there alternatives to ordination for displaying beta-diversity data? In this episode, Pat shares one method for showing the change in microbial communities relative to a specific time or geographic point using R. He’ll demonstrate this approach by using vegan, dplyr, and ggplot2.

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