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The main features of the Canoco 5 program are summarized in the following points:

  • Analytical and graphing capabilities are integrated with an easy-to-use spreadsheet data editor in a single program. All analyses done on a set of data tables are now collected within a Canoco 5 project, sharing the analytical and graphing settings.
  • All statistical methods offered by Canoco for Windows 4.5 are available, such as DCA, CA, CCA, DCCA, PCA, and RDA methods - including their partial variants, with Monte Carlo permutation tests for constrained ordination methods, offering appropriate permutation setup for data coming from non-trivial sampling designs.
  • All visualization tools offered by CanoDraw 4.x are still available (including the loess, GLM and GAM models for the visualization of data attributes in ordination space) and many of them are improved.
  • Data can be entered within the program itself or easily imported from Excel (.XLS or .XLSX formats) or from Canoco 4.x data files. Labels no longer need to be shortened to 8 characters, but these brief forms are still available (can be even automatically generated from the long ones) for display in the ordination diagrams. Standard coding of factors (categorical predictors) is now used, dummy (0/1) variables are generated internally.
  • Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) and distance based RDA (db-RDA) are now easily accessible, with new distance measures added (11 distance types in total, including Bray-Curtis, Gower distance, or Jaccard coefficients).
  • Variation partitioning is easily accessible for two or three groups of predictors including calculations of individual fractions of explained variation, based either on partial or non-partial analyses and using either raw or adjusted variation estimates.
  • Principal coordinates of neighbour matrices (PCNM) method is available within the variation partitioning framework.
  • Computing, testing and graphing of the Principal Response Curves (PRC) is now an easy task.
  • Co-correspondence analysis (CoCA, symmetric form) is available, including Monte Carlo permutation testing.
  • Stepwise selection of predictors was visually enhanced and provides now the support for protection against Type I error inflation (preliminary test with all predictors and the adjustment of p values by one of three methods).
  • Straightforward testing of all constrained axes as well as comparing results of two ordinations with Procrustes analysis is available.
  • One can easily work with species functional traits or import the data on phylogenetic relatedness of species.
  • Visualization capabilities were enhanced by the semi-transparent fill colour attributes, calibration axes for variable' arrows in ordination diagrams, or enclosing ellipses as an alternative to enclosing polygons. Additional types of export in JPEG, TIFF, and PDF formats were added.
  • Every step of your work is supported by the context-sensitive help system and by the Canoco Adviser – an expert system that helps you to select a proper analytical method for your research question, as well as the correct type of ordination model (linear vs. unimodal), or appropriate visualization of the results.
  • Advanced users can combine multiple methods in a single analysis, including generalized linear models to correlate scores etc.

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