Table 2.

Performance at different taxonomic levels

		OTU latent space		Combined latent space
Taxonomic level	No. OTUs	Pearson	Bray–Curtis	Pearson	Bray–Curtis
Phylum	16	0.9576	0.1591	0.9451	0.1833
Class	45	0.8777	0.2514	0.8646	0.2610
Order	83	0.8264	0.3007	0.7983	0.3057
Family	144	0.8229	0.3239	0.7965	0.3229
Genus	222	0.8133	0.3414	0.7901	0.3408
Species	717	0.7348	0.4181	0.7220	0.4072

Note: Based on reference model configuration, with the three selected input variables.