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. 2013 Apr 9;173(3):859–870. doi: 10.1007/s00442-013-2648-1

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

The values of a selection of cluster-validation measures inspected in order to determine the most suitable number of clusters in the dataset. The Calinski-Harabasz index and the mean silhouette width of clusters suggested that two clusters would be a suitable choice, while the ratio between the average distance within and between clusters (WB ratio) would suggest that there was little difference between a solution based on two and three clusters