Description of the Oribatid mite data set

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This data set contains 3 files. Data on a line are separated by tabs.

1) Mite.txt: 70 sites (rows) x 35 morphospecies (columns). The sampling units are substrate cores 5 cm in diameter and 10 cem in depth, hereafter called "cores".
2) Mite_xy.txt: 70 cores (rows) x 2 coordinates in m, in Cartesian plane (columns).
3) Mite_env.txt: 70 cores (rows) x 5 environmental variables (columns).

Please refer to the following papers if you use or refer to this data set in a thesis or a scientific publication:
Pierre Legendre
Daniel Borcard
June 1996 (updated July 2016)