P. Greig-Smith, M. P. Austin, T. C. Whitmore, The Application of Quantitative Methods to Vegetation Survey: I. Association-Analysis and Principal Component Ordination of Rain Forest, Journal of Ecology, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Jul., 1967), pp. 483-503
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Greig-Smith et al. (1967) studied this question.