. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 28.

Published in final edited form as: Oikos. 2018 Sep 25;128(3):10.1111/oik.05802. doi: 10.1111/oik.05802

Table 4.

Regional diversity values (mean ± standard deviation) and the relationship between diversity metrics for different taxonomic groups in lakes and streams of North America

System	Taxa	$\bar{a}$ - richness	β-diversity	γ-richness	Slope: α~γ	Slope: β ~ γ

Streams	Fish	15.090 ± 3.351	0.713 ± 0.068	117.732 ± 43.624	0.0660	0.0012
Streams	Benthic Invertebrates	37.681 ± 6.866	0.872 ± 0.019	330.098 ± 31.597	0.1978	−0.0004
Lakes	Benthic Invertebrates	41.345 ± 8.798	0.853 ± 0.029	249.740 ± 24.713	0.3300	−0.0009
Lakes	Zooplankton	12.909 ± 1.376	0.803 ± 0.024	62.981 ± 4.260	0.1689	−0.0014