Moran’s I autocorrelation statistics based on taxonomy (under development)
Data types
Enter or browse to the location of a text file containing a taxonomy in one of the following forms. The taxonomy can have a row of column headers, or not. If there is a species column, it can have either the full binomial species name or just the specific epithet. In either case, there should be a separate column of genus names.
Type 1
Taxonomic names in columns, final column contains attributes that apply to the lowest level in the taxonomy. Attributes may be real or binary numbers. For example:
| Order | Family | Genus | Species | Body Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anura | Ascaphidae | Ascaphus | truei | 5.7 |
| Anura | Bufonidae | Bufo | exsul | 16.2 |
| Anura | Bufonidae | Bufo | houstonensis | 15.1 |
| … |
Or:
| Order | Family | Genus | Species | Threat Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anura | Ascaphidae | Ascaphus | truei | 0 |
| Anura | Bufonidae | Bufo | exsul | 1 |
| Anura | Bufonidae | Bufo | houstonensis | 0 |
| … |
Type 2
Taxonomic names in columns, penultimate column contains the number of subtaxa within each taxon at the lowest level of the given taxonomy, and the final column contains the number of those subtaxa that exhibit a given binary trait. For example, the lowest level in the taxonomy might be genus, the next column might contain the number of species in each genus, and the last column might contain the number of species in each group that are threatened. Implementation note: before analysis, this form of input is expanded to a full taxonomy with binary attributes. Example of input:
| Order | Family | Genus | Number of species | Number threatened |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anura | Ascaphidae | Ascaphus | 1 | 1 |
| Anura | Bufonidae | Bufo | 23 | 7 |
| Anura | Bufonidae | Acris | 2 | 0 |
| … |