Abstract
Compositional data analysis methods aim to help us understand data that carry only relative information. They can be used when information about totals (e.g., size, mass, amount, or absolute abundance) is unknown, or considered uninformative. This paper addresses a situation where both composition and size are known, and both are potentially informative. Within this framework we analyse jointly composition and size on the total abundances of phytoplankton in a river.
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This research has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports under a Salvador de Madariaga grant (Ref. PR2011-0290); by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under the project METRICS Ref. MTM2012-33236.; and by the Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca of the Generalitat de Catalunya under project Ref: 2009SGR424.
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Pawlowsky-Glahn, V., Egozcue, J.J., Lovell, D. (2014). Analysis of Total Abundances of Phytoplankton Compositions in a River. In: Pardo-Igúzquiza, E., Guardiola-Albert, C., Heredia, J., Moreno-Merino, L., Durán, J., Vargas-Guzmán, J. (eds) Mathematics of Planet Earth. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32408-6_27
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