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. 2015 Feb 22;282(1801):20142620. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2620

Table 1.

Explanation of the indices used in the analyses. Groups of the indices (ad) 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
(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]