Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities
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Summary
It is shown that applying qualitative and quantitative measures to the same data set can lead to dramatically different conclusions about the main factors that structure microbial diversity and can provide insight into the nature of community differences.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2007-01-12
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- 2,403
- References
- 38
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- Open access
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Keywords
UniFrac, Taxon, Beta diversity, Biology, Relative species abundance
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