Dramatic impact of metric choice on biogeographical regionalization

• 作 者: Jian-Fei Ye Yun Liu Zhi-Duan C
• 机 构: StateKeyLaboratoryofSystematicandEvolutionaryBotany,UniversityofChineseAcademyofSciences,BeijingBota
• 出 处: 植物多样性:英文版
• 发表日期: 2020年2期
• 关键词: ANGIOSPERMS Chinese FLORA DISSIMILARITY index Distance metrics Spatial TURNOVER
• 基金项目: grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NNSF 31800178,31590822,31500179 and 31461123001),the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDA19050103 and XDB

For a quantitative biogeographical regionalization,the choice of an appropriate dissimilarity index to measure pairwise distances is crucial.Several different metrics have been used,but there is no specific study to test the impact of metric choice on bio