The Phylogenetic Structure of β-diversity: Covariance Matrix Sparsification of Critical Beta-splitting Trees
Sean S. Svihla, Manuel E. Lladser
The paper sparsifies phylogenetic covariance matrices using Haar-like wavelets and validates the statistical significance of splits in a microbial mat dataset.
bioRxiv · Feb 11, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics