Problem 1

Perform the appropriate statistical analysis to test the hypothesis of a relationship between site and taxon. In other words….are the taxon abundances different among the different sites? Explain your choice of analysis and your interpretation.

Note: this dataset contains a character vector column called “taxon”. This may cause errors when doing statistical tests which expect numerical data. One workaround is to use the rownames() function to assign new row names which contain the taxon names, and then delete the column from the dataframe. Note, by default the rownames of a dataframe are just the row number.