Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities

Lozupone, Catherine; Hamady, Micah; T. Kelley, Scott; Knight, Rob

doi:10.1128/aem.01996-06

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Quantitative and Qualitative β Diversity Measures Lead to Different Insights into Factors That Structure Microbial Communities

Published in Applied and Environmental Microbiology • Jan 13, 2007

Authors:

Catherine Lozupone

Micah Hamady

Scott T. Kelley

Abstract

The assessment of microbial diversity and distribution is a major concern in environmental microbiology. There are two general approaches for measuring community diversity: quantitative measures, which use the abundance of each taxon, and qualitative measures, which use only the presence/absence of ...

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UniFrac

Taxon

Beta diversity

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