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This chapter shows how multivariate approaches can be used for investigating phylogenetic structures, focussing on methods for measuring, testing, accounting for and describing a phylogenetic signal.
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Thioulouse, J., Dray, S., Dufour, AB., Siberchicot, A., Jombart, T., Pavoine, S. (2018). Analysing Phylogenetic Structures. In: Multivariate Analysis of Ecological Data with ade4. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-8850-1_13
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