Selected References that use Principal Components Analysis as a data analysis technique.*

 

  1. Aiba SI, Kohyama T. 1997. Crown architecture and life-history traits of 14 tree species in a warm-temperate rain forest: Significance of spatial heterogeneity. Journal of Ecology 85(5):611-624.
  2. Arsenault A, Bradfield GE. 1995. Structural-compositional variation in three age-classes of temperate rainforests in southern coastal British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Botany 73(1):54-64.
  3. Bert TM, McCarthy KJ, Cruz Lopez H, Bogdanowicz S. 1996. Character discriminatory power, character-set congruence, and the classification of individuals from hybrid zones: An example using stone crabs (Menippe). Evolution 50(2):655-671.
  4. Bodergat AM, Carbonnel G, Rio M, Keyser D. 1993. Chemical composition of Leptocythere psammophila (Crustacea: Ostracoda) as influenced by winter metabolism and summer supplies. Marine Biology (Berlin) 117(1):53-62.
  5. Budd AF, Johnson KG, Potts DC. 1994. Recognizing morphospecies in colonial reef corals: I. Landmark-based methods. Paleobiology 20(4):484-505.
  6. Cadrin SX. 1995. Discrimination of American lobster (Homarus americanus) stocks off southern New England on the basis of secondary sex character allometry. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 52(12):2712-2723.
  7. Carl LM, Hunt C, Ihssen PE. 1994. Rainbow trout of the Athabasca River, Alberta: A unique population. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 123(2):129-140.
  8. Chevenet F, Doledec S, Chessel D. 1994. A fuzzy coding approach for the analysis of long-term ecological data. Freshwater Biology 31(3):295-309.
  9. Clausen B, Biggs BJF. 1997. Relationships between benthic biota and hydrological indices in New Zealand streams. Freshwater Biology 38(2):327-342.
  10. Clements KD, Choat JH. 1993. Influence of season, ontogeny and tide on the diet of the temperate marine herbivorous fish Odax pullus (Odacidae). Marine Biology (Berlin) 117(2):213-220.
  11. Dauphin Y, Marin F. 1995. The compositional analysis of recent cephalopod shell carbohydrates by fourier transform infrared spectrometry and high performance anion exchange - pulsed amperometric detection. Experientia (Basel) 51(3):278-283.
  12. Dobson FS, Michener GR. 1995. Maternal traits and reproduction in Richardson's ground squirrels. Ecology (Washington D C) 76(3):851-862.
  13. Dwyer CM, Kaiser H. 1997. Relationship between skull form and prey selection in the thamnophiine snake genera Nerodia and Regina. Journal of Herpetology 31(4):463-475.
  14. Dybdahl MF, Lively CM. 1996. The geography of coevolution: Comparative population structures for a snail and its trematode parasite. Evolution 50(6):2264-2275.
  15. Girlanda M, Isocrono D, Bianco C, Luppi Mosca AM. 1997. Two foliose lichens as microfungal ecological niches. Mycologia 89(4):531-536.
  16. Guo Q, Brown JH. 1996. Temporal fluctuations and experimental effects in desert plant communities. Oecologia (Berlin) 107(4):568-577.
  17. Gurnell J. 1996. The effects of food availability and winter weather on the dynamics of a grey squirrel population in southern England. Journal of Applied Ecology 33(2):325-338.
  18. Hamilton NRS, Matthew C, Lemaire G. 1995. In defence of the - 3/2 boundary rule: A Re-evaluation of self-thinning concepts and status. Annals of Botany (London) 76(6):569-577.
  19. Hawkes JC, Pyatt DG, White IMS. 1997. Using Ellenberg indicator values to assess soil quality in British forests from ground vegetation: A pilot study. Journal of Applied Ecology 34(2):375-387.
  20. Hester MW, Mendelssohn IA, McKee KL. 1996. Intraspecific variation in salt tolerance and morphology in the coastal grass Spartina patens (Poaceae). American Journal of Botany 83(12):1521-1527.
  21. Holloway GJ, De Jong PW, Ottenheim M. 1993. The genetics and cost of chemical defense in the two-spot ladybird (Adalia bipunctata L.). Evolution 47(4):1229-1239.
  22. Jensen RJ, Hokanson SC, Isebrands JG, Hancock JF. 1993. Morphometric variation of oaks of the Apostle Islands in Wisconsin: Evidence of hybridization between Quercus rubra and Q. ellipsoidalis (Fagaceae). American Journal of Botany 80(11):1358-1366.
  23. Johannesson B, Johannesson K. 1996. Population differences in behaviour and morphology in the snail Littorina saxatilis: Phenotypic plasticity or genetic differentiation? Journal of Zoology (London) 240(3):475-493.
  24. Koetsier P, Bryan CF. 1995. Effects of Abiotic Factors on Macroinvertebrate Drift in the Lower Mississippi River, Louisiana. American Midland Naturalist 134(1):63-74.
  25. Legendre P, Thrush SF, Cummings VJ, Dayton PK, Grant J, Hewitt JE, Hines AH, McArdle BH, Pridmore RD, Schneider DC and others. 1997. Spatial structure of bivalves in a sandflat: Scale and generating processes. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 216(1-2):99-128.
  26. Liang Q, Thomson AJ. 1994. Habitat-abundance relationships of the earthworm Eisenia rosea (Savigny) (Lumbricidae), using principal component regression analysis. Canadian Journal of Zoology 72(7):1354-1361.
  27. Nakamura RK. 1995. Morphological variation in the Pacific sand dollar Dendraster excentricus. Canadian Journal of Zoology 73(3):576-583.
  28. Olff H, Pegtel DM, Van Groenendael JM, Bakker JP. 1994. Germination strategies during grassland succession. Journal of Ecology 82(1):69-77.
  29. Ozeki T, Koide K, Kimoto T. 1995. Evaluation of sources of acidity in rainwater using a constrained oblique rotational factor analysis. Environmental Science & Technology 29(6):1638-1645.
  30. Parker WH, Van Niejenhuis A. 1996. Regression-based focal point seed zones for Picea mariana from northwestern Ontario. Canadian Journal of Botany 74(8):1227-1235.
  31. Paruelo JM, Lauenroth WK. 1995. Regional patterns of normalized difference vegetation index in North American shrublands and grasslands. Ecology (Washington D C) 76(6):1888-1898.
  32. Pogue DW, Schnell GD. 1994. Habitat characterization of secondary cavity-nesting birds in Oklahoma. Wilson Bulletin 106(2):203-226.
  33. Rakocinski C. 1997. Interactive effects of Darter predation and elevated discharge on macroinvertebrates of a Gulf Coast stream. Journal of Freshwater Ecology 12(3):341-354.
  34. Robinson BH, Brooks RR, Kirkman JH, Gregg PEH, Alvarez HV. 1997. Edaphic influences on a New Zealand ultramafic ("serpentine") flora: A statistical approach. Plant and Soil 188(1):11-20.
  35. Rosefield RN, Schneider JW, Papp JM, Seegar WS. 1995. Prey of peregrine falcons breeding in West Greenland. Condor 97(3):763-770.
  36. Rossi JP, Lavelle P, Albrecht A. 1997. Relationships between spatial pattern of the endogeic earthworm Polypheretima elongata and soil heterogeneity. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 29(3-4):485-488.
  37. Rundle HD, Jackson DA. 1996. Spatial and temporal variation in littoral-zone fish communities: A new statistical approach. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 53(10):2167-2176.
  38. Sarver SK, Foltz DW. 1993. Genetic population structure of a species' complex of blue mussels (Mytilus spp.). Marine Biology (Berlin) 117(1):105-112.
  39. Seip KL. 1997. Defining and measuring species interactions in aquatic ecosystems. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54(7):1513-1519.
  40. Shine R. 1994. Allometric patterns in the ecology of Australian snakes. Copeia 1994(4):851-867.
  41. Srygley RB. 1994. Locomotor mimicry in butterflies? The associations of positions of centres of mass among groups of mimetic, unprofitable prey. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 343(1304):145-155.
  42. Stemberger RS, Lazorchak JM. 1994. Zooplankton assemblage responses to disturbance gradients. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 51(11):2435-2447.
  43. Toline CA, Baker AJ. 1993. Foraging tactic as a potential selection pressure influencing geographic differences in body shape among populations of dace (Phoxinus eos). Canadian Journal of Zoology 71(11):2178-2184.
  44. Tubaro PL, Segura ET. 1995. Geographic, ecological and subspecific variation in the song of the rufous-browed peppershrike (Cyclarhis gujanensis). Condor 97(3):792-803.
  45. Wenny DG, Clawson RL, Faaborg J, Sheriff SL. 1993. Population density, habitat selection and minimum area requirements of three forest-interior warblers in central Missouri. Condor 95(4):968-979.
  46. Wetzel PR, Van Der Valk AG. 1996. Vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhizae in prairie pothole wetland vegetation in Iowa and North Dakota. Canadian Journal of Botany 74(6):883-890.
  47. Williams R, Lindley JA, Hunt HG, Collins NR. 1993. Plankton community structure and geographical distribution in the North Sea. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 172(1-2):143-156.

 

* Extracted from the Biosis database