How to calculate R2 or contribution to RDA of each loading in a PCA in R?

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I've run a standard RDA analysis for my data. I am struggling to find a formal analysis for some important insights (i.e. I need a way to report these statements in my paper)

  1. The R2 value + rank or order of importance of each environmental variable? I can see that shrub explains the least variation, but between the other three, I cannot identify which is longer. Also, is there a way of getting R2 or Contribution to RDA model? The anova.cca(mite.spe.rda.signif, step = 1000, by = "term") only provides the variance and p-value. I want to learn more about the strength and contributions. Basically I want to create a table like so (attached below) for my paper

  2. Consider the red x lying in between Shrub and WaterCont at ~(-0.5,-0.5). I want to estimate if Shru or WaterCont explains more of the variation. How can I calculate the distance from each loading to support my point?

    # Load mite species abundance data
     data("mite")
     # Load environmental data
     data("mite.env")
    
     # Hellinger transform the community data
     mite.spe.hel <- decostand(mite, method = "hellinger")
    
     # Standardize quantitative environmental data
     mite.env$SubsDens <- decostand(mite.env$SubsDens, method = "standardize")
     mite.env$WatrCont <- decostand(mite.env$WatrCont, method = "standardize")
    
     mite.spe.rda.signif <- rda(mite.spe.hel ~ WatrCont + Shrub +
         Substrate + Topo + SubsDens, data = mite.env)
    
     # Find the adjusted R2 of the model with the retained env
     # variables
     RsquareAdj(mite.spe.rda.signif)$adj.r.squared
    
     anova.cca(mite.spe.rda.signif, step = 1000, by = "term")
    
     # Scaling 2
     ordiplot(mite.spe.rda.signif, scaling = 2, main = "Mite RDA - Scaling 2")
    

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