… The ordination techniques, with which we are concerned in the present … matrix of resemblances.
These are measurements of similarity or dissimilarity between the entities to be ordinated…

… We emphasize that matrix comparison is a useful empirical … their potential influence upon
ordination and clustering results in … ordination of the two matrices to produce identical solutions. …

… and especially in relation to matrix comparison, or comparison of ordination results, the focus
… proximity matrices or ordination results are influenced by the way the comparable matrices …

… The resemblance functions are found to work from best to worst in the order: coefficient of …
Under a variety of situations, BrayCurtis ordination with a CD matrix performs best and …

… If the ordination is to be obtained through a method requiring the prior calculation of a
distance matrix (PCoA, NMDS), resemblance coefficients are available that are capable of …

… The methods of analysis to which the association matrix will be subjected (clustering,
ordination) may require measures of resemblance with specific mathematical properties. …

… or three PCoA or NMDS ordination axes retained for ordination, together with the original …
Resemblance matrices cannot be used directly in canonical ordination, however. Legendre …

… matrix BBT of Hill's (1973) Appendix 1, with prior centring to eliminate a trivial first eigenvector
(Orloci 1975), then reduce this cross products matrix … ?o, and resemble properties of field …

… resemblance measures incorporated into a method of multi-dimensional scaling. The
results show that a resemblance … in ordination, if the standardizations have not been too 'severe'. …

… It works for methods which start from a resemblance matrix … in the input dissimilarity matrix,
these axes explain pretty … This agreement allows direct visual comparison of ordination scatter …