Table 2. The optimality criteria of the 16 analytical (weighting and clustering) and consensus approaches employed.
| Weighting | Unweighted | Inverse | Bell | Integration | Consensus CoE | Consensus Sub-CoE | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coefficient | J | K2 | S | PAE | J | K2 | S | PAE | J | K2 | S | PAE | J | K2 | S | PAE | ||
| # Characters* | 4,300 | 4,300 | 4,300 | 4,300 | 15,987 | 15,987 | 15,987 | 15,987 | 16,954 | 16,954 | 16,954 | 16,954 | 17,029 | 17,029 | 17,029 | 17,029 | ||
| # CoE endemics | 463 | 472 | 299 | 448 | 490 | 491 | 395 | 483 | 496 | 522 | 404 | 472 | 466 | 476 | 418 | 463 | 1,551 | 1,141 |
| # CoE taxa | 4,144 | 4,169 | 3,909 | 4,112 | 4,199 | 4,218 | 4,156 | 4,193 | 4,212 | 4,244 | 4,200 | 4,179 | 4,187 | 4,217 | 4,173 | 4,177 | 4,347 | 4,089 |
| # CoEs | 47 | 57 | 53 | 38 | 57 | 67 | 63 | 57 | 63 | 66 | 67 | 59 | 59 | 68 | 63 | 60 | 66 | 57 |
| # of cells in CoEs | 177 | 197 | 156 | 162 | 208 | 241 | 229 | 203 | 223 | 256 | 251 | 201 | 201 | 237 | 237 | 199 | 397 | 112 |
“# Characters” = number of characters generated by a weighting technique for the site by taxon matrices; # CoE endemics = numbers of taxa endemic to the CoEs; # CoE taxa = the total number of taxa represented in the CoEs; # CoEs = the total number of CoEs retrieved; # of cells in CoEs = the total number of cells assigned to CoEs, i.e. CoE area) for the individual weighting techniques and similarity measures. J = Jaccard, K2 = Kulczinsky2, S = Simpson.