Chapter 2: Simple measures of similarity of species ‘abundance’ between samples
2.1 Similarity for quantitative data matrices
Data matrix The available biological data is assumed to consist of an array of p rows (species) a...
2.2 Example: Loch Linnhe macrofauna
A trivial example, used in this and the following chapter to illustrate simple manual computation...
2.3 Presence/absence data
As discussed at the beginning of this chapter, quantitative uncertainty may make it desirable to ...
2.4 Species similarities
Starting with the original data matrix of abundances (or biomass, area cover etc), the similarity...
2.5 Dissimilarity coefficients
The converse concept to similarity is that of dissimilarity, the degree to which two samples are ...
2.6 More on resemblance measures
On the grounds that it is better to walk before you try running, discussion of comparisons betwee...