Title
Shopping for Ecological Indices? On the Use of Incidence-Based Species Compositional Similarity Measures
Author
IAN MACGREGOR FORS
FEDERICO ESCOBAR SARRIA
JUAN FERNANDO ESCOBAR IBAÑEZ
NATALIA MESA SIERRA
FREDY ALEXANDER ALVARADO ROBERTO
Rafael Rueda Hernández
CLAUDIA ELIZABETH MORENO ORTEGA
Ina Falfán
ERICK JOAQUIN CORRO MENDEZ
Eduardo Octavio Pineda Arredondo
Amandine Bourg
JOSE LUIS AGUILAR LOPEZ
Access level
Open Access
Alternative identifier
doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050384
Subjects
Summary or description
"β-diversity has been under continuous debate, with a current need to better understand the way in which a new wave of measures work. We assessed the results of 12 incidence-based β-diversity indices. Our results of gradual species composition overlap between paired assemblages considering progressive differences in species richness show the following: (i) four indices (β-2, β-3, β-3.s, and βr) should be used cautiously given that results with no shared species retrieve results that could be misinterpreted; (ii) all measures conceived specifically as partitioned components of species compositional dissimilarities ought to be used as such and not as independent measures per se; (iii) the non-linear response of some indices to gradual species composition overlap should be interpreted carefully, and further analysis using their results as dependent variables should be performed cautiously; and (iv) two metrics (βsim and βsor) behave predictably and linearly to gradual species composition overlap. We encourage ecologists using measures of β-diversity to fully understand their mathematical nature and type of results under the scenario to be used in order to avoid inappropriate and misleading inferences."
Publisher
MDPI
Publish date
2022
Publication type
Article
Publication version
Published Version
Information Resource
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application/pdf
Citation suggestion
MacGregor-Fors, I.; Escobar, F.; Escobar-Ibáñez, J.F.; Mesa-Sierra, N.; Alvarado, F.; Rueda-Hernández, R.; Moreno, C.E.; Falfán, I.; Corro, E.J.; Pineda, E.; Bourg, A.; Aguilar-López, J.L.; Dáttilo, W. Shopping for Ecological Indices? On the Use of Incidence-Based Species Compositional Similarity Measures. Diversity 2022, 14, 384. https://doi.org/10.3390/d14050384
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Repositorio IPICYT
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