Transect characterization

Correlation matrix

Spearman correlation

##              S     H   lit  ston  rock  moss  bare total_sf
## S            1                                             
## H         0.55     1                                       
## lit      -0.12  -0.1     1                                 
## ston      0.05  0.27 -0.36     1                           
## rock      0.17  0.09  0.07 -0.22     1                     
## moss      0.08 -0.08     0 -0.23  0.27     1               
## bare     -0.22     0  0.05 -0.05 -0.28 -0.39     1         
## total_sf  0.29 -0.11  0.02 -0.36  0.02  0.19 -0.51        1

PCA

## $importance
## Importance of components:
##                         PC1    PC2    PC3    PC4     PC5     PC6     PC7
## Eigenvalue            2.128 1.6321 1.3005 1.0242 0.74931 0.66700 0.33507
## Proportion Explained  0.266 0.2040 0.1626 0.1280 0.09366 0.08338 0.04188
## Cumulative Proportion 0.266 0.4701 0.6326 0.7606 0.85430 0.93767 0.97956
##                           PC8
## Eigenvalue            0.16355
## Proportion Explained  0.02044
## Cumulative Proportion 1.00000

Principal component one explains 26.6%, component two explains 20.4%, and component three explains 16.3% of the variance.

Variables

Variables and principal components 1-2

Transects

Commons and principal Components 1-2