44] to identify the processes that shape each community along the salinity gradient and their relative contributions. Mantel correlograms were first computed to test for a significant relationship between the most closely-related taxa and their inhabited ecological niches (phylogenetic signal). Following...
In the test N is set to 4000. According to our test results, about 75% of the adjacent elements are the nearest neighbour elements, too. Thus the clusters must contain elements which are in the near neighbourhood of each other. The cliques generated by the QTC algorithm can provide this ...