Supported Beta-diversity Measures

Quantitative measures

• Bray-Curtis (aka: normalized weighted UniFrac, percentage difference)
• Canberra
• Chi-squared
• Coefficient of similarity
• Complete tree
• Euclidean
• Fst
• Gower
• Hellinger
• Kulczynski
• Lennon compositional difference
• Manhattan (aka: taxicab, city-block, unnormalized weighted UniFrac)
• Mean nearest neighbour distance (aka: comdistnn)
• Mean phylogenetic distance (aka: comdist)
• Morisita-Horn
• Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
• Rao's Hp
• Soergel (aka: Jaccard, unweighted UniFrac, Ruzicka, Marczewski-Steinhaus, percentage remoteness)
• Tamas coefficient (TC) (aka: simple matching coefficient)
• Weighted correlation
• Whittaker index of association
• Yue-Clayton (aka: similarity ratio)

Qualitative measures

• Bray-Curtis (aka: Sorensen, PhyloSor, Dice)
• Canberra
• Coefficient of similarity
• Euclidean
• Gower
• Kulczynski (aka: Kulczynski-Cody, Sokal-Sneath)
• Lennon compositional difference
• Manhattan
• Mean nearest neighbour distance (aka: comdistnn)
• Mean phylogenetic distance (aka: comdist)
• Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient
• Soergel (aka: Jaccard, unweighted UniFrac)
• Tamas coefficient (TC) (aka: simple matching coefficient)
• Weighted correlation