Principal component analysis

M Greenacre, PJF Groenen, T Hastie… - Nature Reviews …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Principal component analysis is a versatile statistical method for reducing a cases-by-
variables data table to its essential features, called principal components. Principal …

Generalizing hierarchical and variation partitioning in multiple regression and canonical analyses using the rdacca.hp R package

J Lai, Y Zou, J Zhang… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Canonical analysis, a generalization of multiple regression to multiple‐response variables,
is widely used in ecology. Because these models often involve many parameters (one slope …

Why are there so many definitions of eutrophication?

A Pannard, P Souchu, C Chauvin… - Ecological …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Because of the first observations in the 1900s of the oligotrophic and eutrophic states of
lakes, researchers have been interested in the process that makes lakes become turbid …

Climatic and soil factors explain the two-dimensional spectrum of global plant trait variation

JS Joswig, C Wirth, MC Schuman, J Kattge… - Nature ecology & …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Plant functional traits can predict community assembly and ecosystem functioning and are
thus widely used in global models of vegetation dynamics and land–climate feedbacks. Still …

Longevity of centenarians is reflected by the gut microbiome with youth-associated signatures

S Pang, X Chen, Z Lu, L Meng, Y Huang, X Yu… - Nature Aging, 2023‏ - nature.com
Centenarians are an excellent model to study the relationship between the gut microbiome
and longevity. To characterize the gut microbiome signatures of aging, we conducted a …

The gut microbiota in multiple sclerosis varies with disease activity

F Thirion, F Sellebjerg, Y Fan, L Lyu, TH Hansen… - Genome medicine, 2023‏ - Springer
Background Multiple sclerosis is a chronic immune-mediated disease of the brain and spinal
cord resulting in physical and cognitive impairment in young adults. It is hypothesized that a …

The genomic signatures of evolutionary stasis

CD Brownstein, DJ MacGuigan, D Kim, O Orr, L Yang… - …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Evolutionary stasis characterizes lineages that seldom speciate and show little phenotypic
change over long stretches of geological time. Although lineages that appear to exhibit …

A unified framework to analyze transposable element insertion polymorphisms using graph genomes

C Groza, X Chen, TJ Wheeler, G Bourque… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Transposable elements are ubiquitous mobile DNA sequences generating insertion
polymorphisms, contributing to genomic diversity. We present GraffiTE, a flexible pipeline to …

City climate and landscape structure shape pollinators, nectar and transported pollen along a gradient of urbanization

P Biella, N Tommasi, L Guzzetti… - Journal of Applied …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Urbanization gradients influence both landscape and climate and provide opportunity for
understanding how plants and pollinators respond to artificially driven environmental …

Aquatic macroinvertebrate assemblages in rivers influenced by mining activities

AE Rico-Sánchez, AJ Rodríguez-Romero… - Scientific Reports, 2022‏ - nature.com
Mining is one of the major pollution sources worldwide, causing huge disturbances to the
environment. Industrial and artisanal mining activities are widespread in Mexico, a major …