Community summary metrics can be disproportionately influenced by abundant taxa...papers?

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I'm seeking papers that show how community summary metrics, such as species richness or functional groupings, can be disproportionately influences by abundant taxa and/or how they can mask reorganization of taxa in the community. I'm not having much success finding papers that show this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Dan

Dan Gwinn

This is the best one I can come up with so far.

Bent, S.J. and Forney, L.J. 2008. The tragedy of the uncommon: understanding limitations in the analysis of microbial diversity. The ISME Journal, 2:689-695.

I'm still interested if anyone knows of any other papers.

Cheers!

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