Mantel Partial Regression

To perform a partial mantel regression on three different distance matrices: > library(vegan) > mantel.partial (xdis, ydis, zdis, + method = "pearson", permutations = 1000) Example. Matrix 1: Genetic distance, Nei's D. Matrix 2: Geographic distance Matrix 3: Regional correspondance (i.e. binary matrix, 1 if two populations belon to the same region, zero otherwise) This will allow to test if a correlation between geographic distance and genetic differentiation exists, when regional correspondance is taken into account.