Using NMDS to study patterns of treespecies composition in Dong Nai Biosphere Reserve
Keywords:
Non - metric Dimensional Scaling (NMDS), species composition, forest ecology,, Dong Nai Biosphere ReserveAbstract
A common problem that studies in forest community ecology often address
is toidentify the similarities/differences in the species compositions of
different areas or following different silvicutural treatments and forest
restoration techniques. To the present, most of the studies in community
ecology in Vietnam have used study plots to characterize the species
compositionand describe the similarities/differences among the plots with
species composition formular. However, this method faces many
challenges in identifying patterns for a large numbers of plots. This paper
presents the application of Non - Metric Dimensional Scaling (NMDS) for
identifying species - association patterns in community assembly among a
large number of study plots. The identified pattern is then described with
other environmental factors to reveal more information about the
communities. To demonstrate the use of NMDS, we use 253 1,000 m
2
study plots that were established during 2015 - 2017 across the Dong Nai
Biosphere Reserve
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