Microorganisms are ubiquitous and closely related to people's daily lives. Since they were
first discovered in the 19th century, researchers have shown great interest in …

Dimensionality reduction techniques are a key component of most microbiome studies,
providing both the ability to tractably visualize complex microbiome datasets and the starting …

PALEONTOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS An up-to-date edition of the indispensable guide to
analysing paleontological data Paleontology has developed in recent decades into an …

A conceptual framework is proposed to evaluate the relative importance of beta diversity,
nestedness and agreement in species richness in presence–absence data matrices via …

Abstract Nearly 30 years ago, Cavalli-Sforza et al. pioneered the use of principal component
analysis (PCA) in population genetics and used PCA to produce maps summarizing human …

Most existing methods for modeling trait evolution are univariate, although researchers are
often interested in investigating evolutionary patterns and processes across multiple traits …

Behandelt werden neben den relevanten statistischen Grundlagen die in der Ökologie
verbreiteten Ordinationsverfahren, Klassifikationen und Permutationsverfahren zur Prüfung …

Recent models of movement generation in motor cortex have sought to explain neural
activity not as a function of movement parameters, known as representational models, but as …

Forest structure, as measured by the physical arrangement of trees and their crowns, is a
fundamental attribute of forest ecosystems that changes as forests progress through suc; …

Differences in diet can explain resource partitioning in apparently similar, sympatric species.
Here, we analyzed 1,252 fecal droppings from five species (Eptesicus nilssonii, Myotis …