I am using the adonis function in the vegan package to determine differences in dissimilarities in a community (PCB congeners) between several different factors.
## Adonis Model pcbtest3 <- adonis(pcbcong ~ BASIN + FISH_CLASS + REACH, data = pcbcov, method = "bray", permutations = 999) ## pcbcong=matrix of community dissimilarities BASIN has 3 levels, FISH_CLASS has two levels and REACH has two levels. I would like to use this procedure to run a model where BASIN is nested and directly test for community similarities between factors, FISH_CLASS and REACH. Does using adonis() within vegan seem reasonable?
Best Answer
I am currently using this package as well for water quality data where I took samples longitudinally along a stream corridor. You have basin and reach, which are both interdependent (i.e. sites in the same basin are more likely to be the same, as well as those on the same reach). I would use reach and basin as blocking terms in the strata variable. You want to know if fish class is dissimilar, but you don't want the fact that they're in the same basin or reach confusing things:
PERM <- adonis(mydata ~ fish_class, permutations = 999, method = "bray", data = alldata, strata = basin + reach)
See if that works…. you can always run the fish class against a single blocking term and do it twice (reach first, then basin) to make sure the interdependency isn't confounding your results.
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