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Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Communities (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
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Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Communities (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)
Series: Population and Community Biology
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The last ten years have seen an enormous increase in the
development and application of multivariate methods in ecology;
indeed the perceived importance of these methods for elucidating
the complex interactions observed in community studies is shown by
the number of recent books devoted to introducing the more common
multivariate techniques to ecologists (Williams, 1976; Orloci,
1978; Whittaker, 1978a, b; Gauch, 1982; Legendre and Legendre,
1983; Pielou, 1984) and by the chapters added to new editions of
more general texts on quantitative ecology (e.g. Greig-Smith, 1983;
Kershaw and Looney, 1985). Two reasons can be put forward to
explain this development. The first is undoubtedly the increasing
availability of cheap computing power which makes it feasible to
analyse the large data matrices involved in community studies. The
second, perhaps less widely appreciated, is the change in emphasis
of theoretical work on multivariate analysis, away from the
development of formal statistical models and associated
distribution theory towards descrip tive techniques for exploring
pattern in data sets and providing succinct summaries and displays.
This new approach, termed 'pattern analysis' by Williams (1976),
has led to a range of statistical techniques which have been
enthusiastically taken up by ecologists to replace the collection
of ad hoc procedures developed over the years for analysing
community data."
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