Stat 555 
Statistical Ecology


SAS Files

West Hawai'i Marine Protected Areas: whap candisc.sas

Analysis: Canonical analysis of discriminance

Problem: data were collected on the abundance of five species of reef fish over a three year period in reference (MPA) and new reserve (FRA) sites before before (B) and after (A) the FRA's were closed to aquarium collectors. oThe following species were examined:

ANigro: Acanthurus nigrofuscus

*CMult: Chaetodon multicinctus

*Kole: Ctenochaetus strigosus

Stegastes: Stegastes fasciolatus

Thallosoma: Thallosoma dupprey

*Zebrasoma: Zebrasoma flavescens

* species are collected by the aquarium industry