MDS plot). This indicates that although still potentially a useful representation of the multi-dimensional space the image is stretched and could be misinterpreted. For this reason, Diagram 10.6.2 presents a 3-dimesional representation of the same MDS plot, which shows at lower stress level (0.19). 0.19 is still considered to be a relatively high stress level and is a consequence of the high number of samples within the data. Therefore the Diagrams 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 should be interpreted with caution as many of the relationship between infaunal communities will not be apparent.
