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The general cluster of spruce populations in Eastern Europe with a Euclidean distance of 60 subdivides into three large subclusters (A, B, and C) with the Euclidean distances of 24, 15, and 21, respectively. Each of them contains three small subclusters with distances that vary from 4 to 8. Small subclusters clearly differ from each other according to their seed scale form indices, phenotypic structure, Squared Mahalanobis Distances, and relative distance values along the general scale of variation. In each of the A, B, and C clusters two of the smaller subclusters group into a single cluster with Euclidean distances that vary from 8 to 13. Populations from cluster A segregate from the populations in clusters B and C, which group into a single cluster with the Euclidean distance of 37.
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Original Russian Text © P.P. Popov, 2015, published in Ekologiya, 2015, No. 2, pp. 95–102.
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Popov, P.P. Cluster groups, population structure, and relative localization of spruce populations in Eastern Europe. Russ J Ecol 46, 128–135 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1067413615010130
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