Autonomy |
Proportion of variance that is aligned with a selection
gradient and is separate from variation in other
directions |
Constraints |
Mean correlation between the response vector to random
selection variants and the matrix’s first principal component, which
largely constrains the phenotype due to it accounting for much of a
species’ phenotypic variation |
Flexibility |
Measure of how close the response of a species aligns with
the different random selection gradients |
Mean squared correlation |
Average of the correlation coefficients,
corresponding to the overall association between the traits
measured |
Respondability |
Pace of the change in population mean when a population
is under directional selection |
PCA similarity |
Measure of similarity of the matrices’ variation by
incormporating the relative similarity of the matrices’ corresponding
principal components |
Integration |
Measure of the strength of morphological integration
quantified using the relative eigen index |