- Beta Diversity
- ratio between regional and local species diversity
- UniFrac Distance
- measures the distance between communities based on the lineages they contain
weighted (quantitative) and unweighted (qualitative)
- Bray-Curits Distance
- quantify the compositional dissimilarity between two different sites, based on counts at each site
- Jaccard Distance
- a statistic used for gauging the similarity and diversity of sample sets