Reply to ‘Dissimilarity measures affected by richness differences yield biased delimitations of biogeographic realms’

Abstract Recently, we classified the oceans into 30 biogeographic realms based on species’ endemicity. Castro-Insua et al. criticize the choices of dissimilarity coefficients and clustering approaches used in our paper, and reanalyse the data using alternative techniques. Here, we explain how the ap...

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Main Authors: Mark J. Costello, Peter Tsai, Alan Kwok Lun Cheung, Zeenatul Basher, Chhaya Chaudhary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07252-4