Table 1.

Measures of biodiversity for general multivariate linear mixed‐effect models

Biodiversity measure	Description	References
IAC	Imbalance of abundances among clades: measures the deviation in abundance distribution among internal splits from a null	Cadotte et al. (2010)
H max	Community‐level mean of plot‐specific maximum plant height values	Leps et al. (2011)
LN	Community‐level mean of mean leaf nitrogen content value for individual species used for all plots where the species is found	Leps et al. (2011)
S	Realized species richness of plot	Tilman, Wedin, and Knops (1996)
MNND	Mean nearest neighbor distance (the mean of the shortest distances connecting each species to any other species in the assemblage)	Webb, Ackerly, McPeek, and Donoghue (2002)
RaoQ	Quadratic entropy using plot‐specific trait values	Botta‐Dukat (2005)
FDis	Functional dispersion: weighted distances from a weighted centroid in multitrait space using plot‐specific trait values	Villeger et al. (2008)
H′	Shannon's diversity index	Tilman et al. (1996)

The order from top to bottom for the measures of biodiversity represents their relative ranking using Akaike's information criterion weights.