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Interactive comment on “Deep-sea scavenging amphipod assemblages from the submarine canyons of the Iberian Peninsula” by G. A. Duffy et al
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Brown, Alexander Thatje, Sven |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | 4. Differences in sampling methodology are important and deserve more discussion. The smaller traps deployed/recovered with ROV and the traps baited with smoked fish are yielding results that in my opinion cannot be directly compared with the results from the other samples. It is interesting to see all the results but the samples affected by differences in sampling methodology should not be included in the multivariate analysis. These samples were clearly not successful in attracting the scavengers yielding abundances 1-2 orders of magnitude lower and also the lowest values for species richness. If these two samples are removed from the multivariate analysis the conversion to percentage composition could be avoided therefore enabling to account for differences in abundance between samples (the duration of the deployments for the remaining samples is within an acceptable range of variability – 21-30 hours). Also I would like to see the MDS plot resulting from the analysis. |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
