John Allen Shuey

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Can - or should - I analyse a data set that has been converted to "percent of total species pool" by site?

This was originally going to be just a descriptive table explaining how many species we sampled at each sample site relative to the total species pool sampled. But when I converted it to percent...

09 January 2019 9,492 3 View

Estimating carbon sequestration in young forest restorations

Here’s a convoluted question. First some back-ground. Over the last 20+ years, we (Indiana TNC) have planted a 2,500+ acres of forest on ex-agricultural land across Indiana (USA). In all cases,...

29 June 2017 3,179 8 View

Dung beetle sampling in pasture versus non-pasture settings

We just released a few bison into a grassland restoration unit of about 1,000 acres. We wanted to assess dung beetle community recovery in response to the animals. When we set out baited pitfall...

22 May 2017 1,902 13 View

Mantel test results do not match common scense! ?

I just ran a Mantel test between Bray-Curtis matrices of plants and bees at a site. The Mantel says that the matrices are "almost" significantly correlated (P=0.06) but a traditional correlation...

08 March 2016 2,773 2 View