Post date: Oct 3, 2013 11:13:15 AM
An article recently published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution explores how to incorporate the differences in size among individuals into the assessment of community compositional resemblance:
De Cáceres M, Legendre P, He F (in press). Dissimilarity measurements and the structure of plant communities. Methods in Ecology and Evolution (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/2041-210X.12116/abstract)