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Testing of null hypotheses in exploratory community analyses: similarity profiles and biota-environment linkage

K. Clarke, P. Somerfield, Raymond N. Gorley

2008.11.15JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2008.07.009

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Tests for null hypotheses of 'absence of structure' should play an important role in any exploratory study, to guard against interpretation of sample patterns that could have been obtained by chance, and two new tests of this type are described.

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CLARKE, K.; SOMERFIELD, P.; GORLEY, Raymond N. Testing of hypotheses in exploratory community analyses: Similarity profiles and biota-environment linkage. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY, 2008, 366: 56–69.