Table 1.

Phylogenetic diversity estimators available to measure α, γ and β components.

	presence/absence	abundances included
		Simpson index	Shannon index
α- and γ-diversity	phylogenetic diversity [3]	phylogenetic quadratic entropy [19,20]	phylogenetic entropy [6]
β-diversity	PhyloSor [9,21]	phylogenetic quadratic entropy decomposition [19]	phylogenetic entropy decomposition (this work)