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Ordination plot of PCA analysis on the community composition the investigated organism groups.

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posted on 2015-09-30, 03:01 authored by Pieter Lemmens, Joachim Mergeay, Jeroen Van Wichelen, Luc De Meester, Steven A. J. Declerck

(A) submerged and floating vegetation, (B) emergent vegetation, (C) macro-invertebrates, (D) mollusks, (E) hemipterans, (F) zooplankton. Only significant explanatory variables are visualized for each taxonomic group. Black triangles represent the centroids of the pond management types, grey arrows represent the first two site scores vectors of the PCA on fish community data, black arrows represent significant environmental variables and black arrows with grey fill represent frequency of pond drainage. Pond management type, site scores vectors of fish community, significant environmental variables and frequency of pond drainage were plotted as supplementary variables so did not influence the ordination. For clarity, only the taxa that occurred in minimum 15% of the samples are shown for submerged, emergent plants and zooplankton. The ordination plot of phytoplankton community composition is not shown since none of the explanatory variable sets had a significant effect. See S3 Table for full species names.

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