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title: "Alternatives to ordination in R: Visualizing community change relative to a specific point (CC207)"
blurb: "Replacing ordinations"
author: "PD Schloss"
date: 2022-04-25 11:00
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An ordination has a limited set of uses. But are there alternatives to ordination for displaying beta-diversity data? In this episode, Pat shares one method for showing differences between groups of observations using a jittered plot with summary statistics overlayed on the points. He'll demonstrate this approach by using functions from `vegan`, `dplyr`, and `ggplot2`.


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## Code

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