Table 1.
Explanation of the indices used in the analyses. Groups of the indices (a–d) correspond to the groups in figure 1. Note that Ssh, Seve, Stot, as well as all indices in the groups (b,d) can be weighted by numerical or biomass abundances.
name | index | refs | |
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(a) | Srich | species richness | |
Seve | Pielous' J species evenness | ||
Ssh | Shannon diversity | ||
Stot | total abundances | ||
(b) | CWM | community weighted means | [35] |
(c) | FRdendr | functional richness | [8,9] |
FRminvol | functional richness | [11] | |
(d) | FDdendr.wc | weighted FRdendr | our adjusted index |
FDdendr.ac | weighted FRdendr | our adjusted index | |
FDdis | functional dispersion | [10] | |
FDeve | functional evenness | [11] | |
FDdiv | functional divergence | [11] | |
FDRao | Rao's quadratic entropy | [36] |