New technique directly links community composition to environmental factors for better analysis.
A new technique called Canonical Correspondence Analysis was developed to link community composition with environmental factors. This method directly connects community variation with environmental variation by using linear combinations of environmental variables to create ordination axes. This approach is more effective for analyzing community composition and environmental data compared to traditional methods. The result is an ordination diagram that visually represents how species and sites are influenced by environmental variables, providing insights into the patterns of variation in community composition.