Identification of Fine-Scale Marine Benthic Ecoclines by Multiple Parallel Ordination
Figure 7
Contour-plots showing patterns of variation in ordination space for (a) total abundance (total number of individuals of all species), (b) species richness, and (c) species evenness for axes 1 and 2 of DCA.. The contour-plots are fitted by use of the ordisurf command fitting GAM with Poisson errors. The sizes of the bubbles are proportional to the magnitude of the target value, but not comparable between plots. Axes are scaled in SD units of compositional turnover. The equidistance between contours differs between plots.
