On dendrograms, ordinations and functional spaces: methodological choices or pitfalls?

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" On dendrograms, ordinations and functional spaces: methodological choices or pitfalls? "
Cianciaruso, Marcus V.; Sobral, Fernando; Lees, Alexander

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	920804
Doc. No	:	LA86q4b0tx
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Cianciaruso, Marcus V.; Sobral, Fernando; Lees, Alexander
Title & Author	:	On dendrograms, ordinations and functional spaces: methodological choices or pitfalls? [Article]\ Cianciaruso, Marcus V.; Sobral, Fernando; Lees, Alexander
Title of Periodical	:	Frontiers of Biogeography
Volume/ Issue Number	:	9/3
Date	:	2017
Abstract	:	A number of concerns persist regarding (i) how functional spaces should be quantified, (ii) how phylogenetic richness should be calculated, (iii) and how functional beta diversity should be calculated. Because all current methods have their shortcomings we think that analytical choices are as much a matter of knowing the limitations of the data and knowing the working hypothesis. Only then can one follow their personal choice, weighing up the shortcomings of different methods that, at the end of the day, usually produce qualitatively similar results.