title: Detecting change in the composition of multispecies community.
abstract: This paper describes an approach to extracting a trend from a time series of the composition of a multispecies community. The approach is based on a modification of a method for trend extraction from ordinary multiple time series. Two applications to a Northwest Atlantic ecosystem are described.
authors.affiliation: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA.
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Solow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001267:Atlantic Ocean; D017753:Ecosystem; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005399:Fishes; D008281:Maine; D011157:Population Dynamics; D025341:Principal Component Analysis