vegandevs / vegan

R package for community ecologists: popular ordination methods, ecological null models & diversity analysis
https://vegandevs.github.io/vegan/
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Need help for understand the "alias" variables #612

Closed eggxo closed 6 months ago

eggxo commented 6 months ago

Dear author, When I run RDA anaysis, I find that there are not full environment variables in the correlation plot, like this: I use 42 environment variables, but there are only 21 in this plot. I have read the A&Q in issue511,but I am still confused about the alias variables: In my data, the rda only considers the first 21 variables and ignores the rest. Then, I delete the first 21 variables and perform the rda, it still consider the first 21 variables in the rest variables. But these variables do not have strong correlation, for example: UV and bio1-11.

**Thus, my problems are:

  1. If I want to draw the explanatory plot of all 42 variables (like the plots below), what should I do?
  2. How could I know variable and its alias variable? Could I use one of the variables to perform RDA?
  3. Also, in rda forward selection, we also meet alias variables, if one is significant, does another is significant too?
  4. When I use the results of RDA to get the intersects of the results of LFMM, there are little intersects. Do u have any suggestions? (my workflow is : use forward selection to select envrionment variables--run rda anaysis and LFMM anaysis--get the intersects)**

Thank you sir very much ! I really appreciate it if u could help me!

all variables

1 pade rda1_2 huan

change the sorts

2 pade rda1_2 huan1

delete bio12-19

3 pade rda1_2 huan3