Figure 3
From: Influence of mating strategies on seminal material investment in crabs
Non-metric multidimensional scaling (nMDS) plot consisting of seasonal data of four brachyuran species. Non-metric multidimensional scaling is a tool to assess similarity between samples when considering multiple variables of interest. The value stress represents how well points fit within the specified number of dimensions (stress < 0.05 indicates good fit). The variables included in the nMDS were quantities of proteins and lipids, the vasosomatic index and the total energy content per paired vasa deferentia. Data were square root transformed for analysis.
