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31.4 How to Use This Book
Overall, the book guides readers through an applied exploration of the major
methods of multivariate data analysis, as seen through the eye of an ecologist.
Starting with some exploratory approaches (Chap. 2), it proceeds logically with the
construction of the key building blocks of most techniques, i.e. association measures
and matrices (Chap. 3), and then submits example data to three families of approaches:
clustering (Chap. 4), ordination and canonical ordination (Chaps. 5 and 6), and finally
spatial analysis (Chap. 7). The aims of methods thus range from descriptive to
explanatory and to predictive and encompass a wide variety of approaches that should
provide readers with an extensive toolbox that can address a wide palette of questions
arising in contemporary multivariate ecological analysis.
1.4 How to Use This Book
The book is meant as a companion when working at the computer. The authors
pictured a reader studying a chapter by reading the text and simultaneously executing
the code. To fully understand the various methods, it is preferable to go through the
chapters sequentially, since each builds upon the previous ones. At the beginning of
each chapter, an empty R console is assumed to be open. All the necessary data files,
the scripts used in the chapters, as well as the R functions and packages that are not
available through the CRAN Web site, can be downloaded from a Web page acces-
sible through the Springer Web site (http://www.springer.com/978-1-4419-7975-9).
Some of the homemade functions duplicate existing ones, providing alternative solu-
tions (for instance, different or expanded graphical outputs), while others have been
written to streamline complex sequences of operations.
Although the code provided can be run in one single copy-and-paste shot within
each chapter (with some rare exceptions for interactive functions), the best proce-
dure is to proceed through the code slowly and explore each set of commands
carefully. Although the use and meaning of some arguments is explained within
the code or in the text, readers are warmly invited to use and abuse of the R help
files (function name following a question mark) to learn about and explore the
various options available. Our aim is not to describe all options of all functions,
which would be an impossible and useless task. We are confident that an avid user,
willing to go beyond the provided examples, will be kept busy for months exploring
the options that he or she deems the most interesting.
Within each chapter, after the introduction, readers are invited to import the data
for the exercises, as well as the R packages necessary for the whole chapter. The
R code used in each chapter is self-contained, i.e. it can be run in one step without
resorting to intermediate results produced in previous chapters. If such objects are
needed, they are recomputed at the beginning of the chapter.
In everyday use, one generally does not produce an R object for every single
operation, nor does one create and name a new graphical window for every plot. We
do that in the R scripts to provide readers with all the entities necessary to backtrack
the procedures, compare results and explore variants. Therefore, after having run
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4 1 Introduction
most of the code in a chapter, if one decides to explore another path using some
intermediate result, the corresponding object will be available without the need to
recompute it. This is particularly handy for results of computer-intensive methods
(like some based on large numbers of random permutations), especially if one uses
a relatively slow computer.
In the code sections of the book, all calls to graphical windows have been deleted
for brevity. They are found in the electronic code scripts, however. Furthermore, the
book shows several, but not all, graphical outputs for reference. They are printed
in grey scale, although some are in colour when produced by R. This is an incentive
for readers to be active users of the book and of its code.
Sometimes, readers are made aware of some special features of the code or of
tricks used to obtain particular results, by means of hint boxes located at the bottom
of code sections.
Although many methods are applied to the example data, ecological interpreta-
tions is not provided in all cases. Sometimes, questions are left open to readers, as
an incentive to verify if she or he has correctly understood the method, and hence
its application and the numerical or graphical outputs.
Lastly, for some methods programming-oriented readers are invited to write
their own code. These incentives are placed in boxes called “code-it-yourself
corners”. When examples are readily written, they are meant for pedagogical
purposes and do not pretend at computational efficiency. The aim of these boxes is
to help interested readers code the matrix algebra equations presented in Legendre
and Legendre (1998) into R and obtain the main outputs that ready-made packages
provide. The whole idea is, of course, to reach the deepest possible understanding
of the mathematical working of some key methods.
1.5 The Data Sets
Apart from rare cases where ad hoc fictitious data are built for special purposes, the
applications rely on two main data sets that are readily available in R. However,
data provided in R packages can change over the years. Therefore, we prefer to
provide them also in the electronic material accompanying this book because this
ensures that the results obtained by the readers are exactly the same as those
presented in the book. The two data sets are briefly presented here. The first
(Doubs) data set is explored in more detail in Chap. 2, and readers are encouraged
to apply the same exploratory methods to the second one.
1.5.1 The Doubs Fish Data
In an important doctoral thesis, Verneaux (1973; see also Verneaux et al. 2003)
proposed to use fish species to characterize ecological zones along European rivers
and streams. He showed that fish communities were good biological indicators of
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51.5 The Data Sets
these water bodies. Starting from the source, Verneaux proposed a typology in four
zones, and he named each one after a characteristic species: the trout zone (from
the brown trout Salmo trutta fario), the grayling zone (from Thymallus thymallus),
the barbel zone (from Barbus barbus) and the bream zone (from the common bream
Abramis brama). The two upper zones are considered as the “Salmonid region” and
the two lowermost ones constitute the “Cyprinid region”. The corresponding
ecological conditions, with much variation among rivers, range from relatively
pristine, well oxygenated and oligotrophic to eutrophic and oxygen-deprived waters.
The Doubs data set that is used in the present book consists of three matrices
containing part of the data used by Verneaux for his studies. These data have been
collected at 30 sites along the Doubs River, which runs near the France–Switzerland
border in the Jura Mountains. The first matrix contains coded abundances of
27 fish species, the second matrix contains 11 environmental variables related to
the hydrology, geomorphology and chemistry of the river, and the third matrix
contains the geographical coordinates (Cartesian, X and Y ) of the sites. These data
have already served as test cases in the development of numerical techniques
(Chessel et al. 1994).
Working with the environmental data available in the R package ade4 (at the
time of this writing, i.e. ade4 version 1.4-14), we corrected a mistake in the das
variable and restored the variables to their original units, which are presented in
Table 1.1.
1.5.2 The Oribatid Mite Data
Oribatid mites (Acari: Oribatida) are a very diversified group of small (0.2–1.2 mm)
soil-dwelling, mostly microphytophagous and detritivorous arthropods. A well-
aerated soil or a complex substrate like Sphagnum mosses present in bogs and wet
forests can harbour up to several hundred thousand (10
5
) individuals per square
Table 1.1 Environmental variables of the Doubs data set used
in this book and their units
Variable Code Units
Distance from source
das
km
Altitude alt m a.s.l.
Slope pen ‰
Mean minimum discharge deb m
3
s
−1
pH of water pH –
Calcium concentration (hardness) dur mg L
−1
Phosphate concentration pho mg L
−1
Nitrate concentration nit mg L
−1
Ammonium concentration amm mg L
−1
Dissolved oxygen oxy mg L
−1
Biological oxygen demand
dbo
mg L
−1
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6 1 Introduction
metre. Local assemblages are sometimes composed of over a hundred species,
including many rare ones. This diversity makes oribatid mites an interesting target
group to study community–environment relationships at very local scales.
The example data set is composed of 70 cores of mostly Sphagnum mosses
collected on the territory of the Station de biologie des Laurentides of Université
de Montréal, Québec, Canada in June 1989. The data were collected in order to test
various ecological hypotheses about the relationships between living communities
Table 1.2 Environmental variables of the oribatid mite data set used in this
book and their units
Variable Code Units
Substrate density (dry matter)
SubsDens
g dm
−3
Water content WatrCont g dm
−3
Substrate Substrate 7 unordered classes
Shrubs Shrub 3 ordered classes
Microtopography
Topo
Blanket – Hummock
Table 1.3
Several help resources in R
Action Use Example Remark
? (question
mark)
Obtain information
about a function
?decostand
The package to
which the
function
belongs must
be active
?? (double
question mark)
Obtain information
on the basis of a
keyword
??diversity The search is
done in all
the packages
installed in the
computer
Type the name
of a function
Display the code
of the function
on-screen
diversity Not all functions
can be displayed
fully; some
contain
compiled code
help
(pack age = "....")
Displays information
on the package,
including a list of
all functions and
data
help
(pack age = "ade4")
data
(pac kage = "...")
Lists the data sets
contained in a
package
data
(pack age = "vegan")
Search on the CRAN
Web site
Broader search than
above; access to
discussion lists
Go to http://cran.r-
project.org/, click on
the “Search” link and
choose one of the
links
Outside the R
master Web
server
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71.7 Now It Is Time…
and their environment when the latter is spatially structured, and develop statistical
techniques for the analysis of the spatial structure of living communities. It has
since become a classical test data set, used in several publications (e.g. Borcard
et al. 1992, 2004; Borcard and Legendre 1994; Wagner 2004; Legendre 2005;
Dray et al. 2006; Griffith and Peres-Neto 2006).
The data set comprises three files that contain the abundances of 35 morpho-
species, 5 substrate and microtopographic variables, and the x–y Cartesian coordi-
nates of the 70 cores. The environmental variables are listed in Table 1.2.
1.6 A Quick Reminder about Help Sources
The R language is intended as a self-learning tool. So please use and abuse of the
various ways to ask questions, display code, run examples that are imbedded in
the framework. Some important help tools are presented in Table 1.3.
1.7 Now It Is Time...
... to get you hands full of code, numerical outputs and plots. Revise the basics of
the methods, explore the code, analyse it, change it, try to apply it to your data and
interpret your results. Above all, we hope to show that doing numerical ecology in
R is fun!
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