vegan (version 2.6-4)

adonis: Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance Using Distance Matrices

Description

Analysis of variance using distance matrices --- for partitioning distance matrices among sources of variation and fitting linear models (e.g., factors, polynomial regression) to distance matrices; uses a permutation test with pseudo-\(F\) ratios.

Usage

adonis2(formula, data, permutations = 999, method = "bray",
    sqrt.dist = FALSE, add = FALSE, by = "terms",
    parallel = getOption("mc.cores"), na.action = na.fail,
    strata = NULL, ...)

Value

The function returns an anova.cca result object with a new column for partial \(R^2\): This is the proportion of sum of squares from the total, and in marginal models (by = "margin") the \(R^2\) terms do not add up to 1.

Arguments

formula

Model formula. The left-hand side (LHS) of the formula must be either a community data matrix or a dissimilarity matrix, e.g., from vegdist or dist. If the LHS is a data matrix, function vegdist will be used to find the dissimilarities. The right-hand side (RHS) of the formula defines the independent variables. These can be continuous variables or factors, they can be transformed within the formula, and they can have interactions as in a typical formula.

data

the data frame for the independent variables.

permutations

a list of control values for the permutations as returned by the function how, or the number of permutations required, or a permutation matrix where each row gives the permuted indices.

method

the name of any method used in vegdist to calculate pairwise distances if the left hand side of the formula was a data frame or a matrix.

sqrt.dist

Take square root of dissimilarities. This often euclidifies dissimilarities.

add

Add a constant to the non-diagonal dissimilarities such that all eigenvalues are non-negative in the underlying Principal Co-ordinates Analysis (see wcmdscale for details). Choice "lingoes" (or TRUE) use the recommended method of Legendre & Anderson (1999: “method 1”) and "cailliez" uses their “method 2”.

by

by = "terms" will assess significance for each term (sequentially from first to last), setting by = "margin" will assess the marginal effects of the terms (each marginal term analysed in a model with all other variables), by = "onedf" will analyse one-degree-of-freedom contrasts sequentially, by = NULL will assess the overall significance of all terms together. The arguments is passed on to anova.cca.

parallel

Number of parallel processes or a predefined socket cluster. With parallel = 1 uses ordinary, non-parallel processing. The parallel processing is done with parallel package.

na.action

Handling of missing values on the right-hand-side of the formula (see na.fail for explanation and alternatives). Missing values are not allowed on the left-hand-side. NB, argument subset is not implemented.

strata

Groups within which to constrain permutations. The traditional non-movable strata are set as Blocks in the permute package, but some more flexible alternatives may be more appropriate.

...

Other arguments passed to vegdist.

Author

Martin Henry H. Stevens and Jari Oksanen.

Details

adonis2 is a function for the analysis and partitioning sums of squares using dissimilarities. The function is based on the principles of McArdle & Anderson (2001) and can perform sequential, marginal and overall tests. The function also allows using additive constants or squareroot of dissimilarities to avoid negative eigenvalues, but can also handle semimetric indices (such as Bray-Curtis) that produce negative eigenvalues. The adonis2 tests are identical to anova.cca of dbrda. With Euclidean distances, the tests are also identical to anova.cca of rda.

The function partitions sums of squares of a multivariate data set, and they are directly analogous to MANOVA (multivariate analysis of variance). McArdle and Anderson (2001) and Anderson (2001) refer to the method as “permutational MANOVA” (formerly “nonparametric MANOVA”). Further, as the inputs are linear predictors, and a response matrix of an arbitrary number of columns, they are a robust alternative to both parametric MANOVA and to ordination methods for describing how variation is attributed to different experimental treatments or uncontrolled covariates. The method is also analogous to distance-based redundancy analysis in functions dbrda and capscale (Legendre and Anderson 1999), and provides an alternative to AMOVA (nested analysis of molecular variance, Excoffier, Smouse, and Quattro, 1992; amova in the ade4 package) for both crossed and nested factors.

References

Anderson, M.J. 2001. A new method for non-parametric multivariate analysis of variance. Austral Ecology, 26: 32--46.

Excoffier, L., P.E. Smouse, and J.M. Quattro. 1992. Analysis of molecular variance inferred from metric distances among DNA haplotypes: Application to human mitochondrial DNA restriction data. Genetics, 131:479--491.

Legendre, P. and M.J. Anderson. 1999. Distance-based redundancy analysis: Testing multispecies responses in multifactorial ecological experiments. Ecological Monographs, 69:1--24.

McArdle, B.H. and M.J. Anderson. 2001. Fitting multivariate models to community data: A comment on distance-based redundancy analysis. Ecology, 82: 290--297.

Warton, D.I., Wright, T.W., Wang, Y. 2012. Distance-based multivariate analyses confound location and dispersion effects. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 3, 89--101.

See Also

mrpp, anosim, mantel, varpart.

Examples

data(dune)
data(dune.env)
## default test by terms
adonis2(dune ~ Management*A1, data = dune.env)
## overall tests
adonis2(dune ~ Management*A1, data = dune.env, by = NULL)

### Example of use with strata, for nested (e.g., block) designs.
dat <- expand.grid(rep=gl(2,1), NO3=factor(c(0,10)),field=gl(3,1) )
dat
Agropyron <- with(dat, as.numeric(field) + as.numeric(NO3)+2) +rnorm(12)/2
Schizachyrium <- with(dat, as.numeric(field) - as.numeric(NO3)+2) +rnorm(12)/2
total <- Agropyron + Schizachyrium
dotplot(total ~ NO3, dat, jitter.x=TRUE, groups=field,
        type=c('p','a'), xlab="NO3", auto.key=list(columns=3, lines=TRUE) )

Y <- data.frame(Agropyron, Schizachyrium)
mod <- metaMDS(Y, trace = FALSE)
plot(mod)
### Ellipsoid hulls show treatment
with(dat, ordiellipse(mod, field, kind = "ehull", label = TRUE))
### Spider shows fields
with(dat, ordispider(mod, field, lty=3, col="red"))

### Incorrect (no strata)
adonis2(Y ~ NO3, data = dat, permutations = 199)
## Correct with strata
with(dat, adonis2(Y ~ NO3, data = dat, permutations = 199, strata = field))