Abundance-weighted phylogenetic diversity measures distinguish microbial community states and are robust to sampling depth
In microbial ecology studies, the most commonly used ways of investigating alpha (within-sample) diversity are either to apply non-phylogenetic measures such as Simpson’s index to Operational Taxonomic Unit (OTU) groupings, or to use classical phylogenetic diversity (PD), which is not abundance-weig...
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PeerJ Inc.
2013-09-01
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