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From: A functional approach to the structural complexity of coral assemblages based on colony morphological features

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Morpho-functional space. The distribution of Functional Entities (group of species based on unique combinations of morphological traits) is shown in a functional space where PCOA1 and PCOA2 represent axes extracted from a Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) on the morphological features of coral species. Morphological traits were overlaid as vectors on the PCoA to easily discriminate sources of the differences among species. PCoA was built on a Gower distance dissimilarity matrix. Cailliez correction was applied to accommodate negative eigenvalues.

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