Dear all,

I'm looking for a way to statistically compare species composition between sites. I have the abundance of 42 species for 21 sites belonging to 4 different categories. I will also soon have GPS data giving me the distance between sites.

I basically want to see if there is any similarity in term of ecological composition between my sites and between categories and also if any species indicators (or combination of them) come out for each sites or for each category of sites.

So far, I've tried to compute Bray Curtis matrix (vegan package on R) giving me dendrogram of similarity and play around with Indicspec package, but I'm definitely out of my confort zone with that kinds of tests. Once I have the GPS data, I'd like to include those informations in the analyzes, but I have no clue on how to do it (Mantel correlation?).

Any inputs on what to do and how to do it would be much appreciated.

Cheers

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