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. 2006 Sep 20;6:72. doi: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-72

Table 3.

Similarity of bioclimatic niche models within selected groups of Cyclamen.

Group (Node No) Mean Similarity* N** Std. dev. 95% CI
a) Subgen. Corticata (Node 15) 0.00 2 0.00 -
Subgen. Cyclamen (-) 0.14 6 0.28 0.03–0.23
Subgen. Gyrophoebe (-) 0.22 8 0.35 0.13–0.31
Subgen. Persicum (Node 8) 0.00 2 0.00 -
Subgen. Psilanthum (Node 2) 0.29 3 0.40 0.00–0.60

b) (Node 6) 0.16 4 0.33 0.00–0.34
(Node 9) 0.14 4 0.28 0.00–0.30
(Node 13) 0.00 4 0.00 -
(Node 16) 0.28 6 0.37 0.15–0.41

c) All Cyclamen 0.15 21 0.35 0.11–0.18

d) Random groups of 8 species 0.17 100 × 8 0.07 0.15–0.18
Random groups of 5 species 0.18 100 × 5 0.10 0.15–0.19
Random groups of 3 species 0.16 100 × 3 0.25 0.12–0.18

Mean similarity of BIOCLIM models for selected groups of Cyclamen. a) " Subgenera; b) Monophyletic groups from phylogeny (fig 7); c) Overall average for all Cyclamen; d) Randomisation replicates of subsets of Cyclamen for varying group sizes. * Similarity based on interpredictivity measure. ** N is number of species in clade. ***CI = confidence interval for the mean based on N(N-1) comparisons for a-c) and 100 replicates for d)