Research Article

Distributional Patterns of Alien Plants in China: The Relative Importance of Phylogenetic History and Functional Attributes

Table 4

The influence of alternative clustering methods for functional dendrogram of species on influencing the results of partial Mantel test. Values inside the parentheses were the values derived from 1000 permutation test. Values outside the parentheses were the standardized Mantel statistic. Four distance indices were applied to both phylogenetic tree and functional dendrogram as showed in the text: Sorensen, Unifrac, , and .

IndicesWardAverageComplete
Phylogenetic distance versus compositional distanceFunctional distance versus compositional distancePhylogenetic distance versus compositional distanceFunctional distance versus compositional distancePhylogenetic distance versus compositional distanceFunctional distance versus compositional distance

Sorensen−0.090 (0.841)0.093 (0.132)−0.053 (0.767)0.058 (0.208)−0.078 (0.821)0.0804 (0.171)
0.191 (0.064)−0.183 (0.936)0.226 (0.027)−0.220 (0.973)0.177 (0.078)−0.168 (0.918)
0.189 (0.039)−0.181 (0.948)−0.107 (0.844)0.125 (0.108)0.160 (0.077)−0.148 (0.921)
Unifrac−0.223 (0.948)1.178 (0.948)−0.249 (0.98)0.178 (0.091)−0.226 (0.965)0.177 (0.071)