Table 4. RELATE comparison of Bray-Curtis similarity matrices.
Taxonomic level | Spearman rank coefficient | Metabolic level | Spearman rank coefficient |
phylum | 0.887 | level 1 | 0.652 |
class | 0.944 | level 2 | 0.958 |
order | 0.959 | level 3 | 0.967 |
family | 0.940 | functions | 0.969 |
genus | 0.965 | ||
species | 0.966 |
The Bray-Curtis similarity matrices calculated from square root transformed abundance of DNA fragments generated based on full datasets and sub-sampled datasets.