polyploid complexes and other peculiarities of plant genomics, phenetic techniques in botany – though less informative altogether – may, in these special cases, be less prone to errors compared with cladistic analysis of DNA sequences. In addition, many of the techniques developed by phenetic taxonomists have been adopted and extended by community ecologists, due to a similar need to deal with large amounts of data. See also Distance matrices in phylogeny Folk taxonomy Form classification Linnaean taxonomy Phenomics Taxonomy Dendrogram Operational taxonomic unit References Biological classification