Alternatives to ordination in R: Visualizing community change relative to a specific point (CC207)

April 25, 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 differences between groups of observations using a jittered plot with summary statistics overlayed on the points. He’ll demonstrate this approach by using functions from vegan, dplyr, and ggplot2.

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