A statistical test and sample size recommendations for comparing community composition following PCA

• John R. Skalski ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John R. Skalski, Shelby M. Richins, Richard L. Townsend

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: skalski@uw.edu

  Affiliation School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7070-2505

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• Shelby M. Richins ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: John R. Skalski, Shelby M. Richins, Richard L. Townsend

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Richard L. Townsend

  Contributed equally to this work with: John R. Skalski, Shelby M. Richins, Richard L. Townsend

  Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Aquatic & Fishery Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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