Principal coordinate analysis to reveal functional (dis)similarities between taxa
After the assembly of the functional trait table, Principal Coordinate Analysis (PCoA) of the species functional traits was used to construct a ‘functional trait map’ from the 204 taxa with complete set of trait information. Distance matrix for PCoA was calculated with Gower distance that allows different trait types (continuous, binary, categorical) to be combined. Minimum and maximum length were log transformed before calculating the distance. The first two principal coordinates were kept in PCoA to create a 2D representation of the functional differences between species.