Relatedness supplied as resemblances

Note the alternative means of supplying the variable information, to these dissimilarity measures and the biodiversity indices of Section 15, which is now available in PRIMER 7. In the Variable Relationship dialog box, Type•Resemblance>Details now requires specification of a numeric among-species resemblance matrix which could be constructed from genetic, functional etc data, but is illustrated here by first creating a species distance matrix through the Linnean tree with Analyse>Similarity when the aggregation file Groundfish taxonomy is the active window. This takes you to a similar Taxonomy dialog box as above and creates sheet Resem2 of among-species distances 20, 40, 60, 80, 100. The Linnean tree could be viewed by Analyse>Cluster (next section) on Resem2, or in alternative format by Tools>Tree on Groundfish taxonomy. When Resem2 is supplied as the Variable resemblance worksheet from Details, the same $\Gamma^+$ matrix results, naturally.