Relationships Among Indices Suggest that Richness Is an Incomplete Surrogate for Grassland Biodiversity

By Brian J. Wilsey, D. R. Chalcraft, Christy Bowles, M. Willig. 2005

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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O que ganhamos 'confundindo' riqueza de espécies e equabilidade em um índice de diversidade? (2008, unknown): “O uso de apenas um dos dois componentes é uma alternativa, visto a facilidade de interpretação e alta correlação em muitos casos entre riqueza de espécies e equabilidade (mas veja Ma 2005, Wilsey et al. 2005).”
Choosing and using diversity indices: insights for ecological applications from the German Biodiversity Exploratories (2014, unknown): “As in other studies (Wilsey et al. 2005; Heino et al. 2008), we found that S provided a poor ability to discriminate sites, while the compound diversity measures, primarily D1 and D2, provided the greatest such ability.”
Species abundance distributions: moving beyond single prediction theories to integration within an ecological framework. (2007, background): “Empirical results to date are mixed (Kempton & Taylor 1974; Weiher & Keddy 1999; Stirling & Wilsey 2001; Wilsey et al. 2005).”
Biodiversity and extinction: the importance of being common (2008, background): “The evenness of the abundances of species has also variously been found to increase (Cotgreave and Harvey, 1994), decrease (Buzas and Hayek, 1996; Stirling and Wilsey, 2001; Pautasso and Gaston, 2005) or show no marked relationship (Ma, 2005; Wilsey et al., 2005; Bock et al., 2007) with increasing s”
Loss of functional diversity under land use intensification across multiple taxa. (2009, background): “Similarly, other researchers have found that species richness is an inadequate measure of biodiversity in general (Wilsey 2005), and recommend using indices that account for abundance and composition of organisms.”
A comprehensive approach to analyzing community dynamics using rank abundance curves (2019, background): “Yet, species richness alone can be an insensitive measure of ecological dynamics (Wilsey et al. 2005, Avolio et al. 2015, Hillebrand et al. 2017, Jones et al. 2017) because it does not take into account identity or abundance potentially masking complex dynamics, such as turnover and reordering of…”
Species richness and evenness respond in a different manner to propagule density in developing prairie microcosm communities (2007, unknown): “Negative relationships between plant richness and evenness were also found by Weiher and Keddy (1999), Bell (2003), and Wilsey et al. (2005).”
How many dimensions of biodiversity do we need (2012, background): “Community ecologists have long known that species richness alonemisses much diversity (e.g. Magurran, 2004; Wilsey et al., 2005), which is why compositional indices such as Simpson’s are well supported.”
Consequences of dominance: a review of evenness effects on local and regional ecosystem processes. (2008, background): “Invasibility of planted grasslands decreased with increasing evenness, i.e., enhanced dominance led to stronger invasibility of dicot invaders but had no effect on monocot invaders (Wilsey and Polley 2002).”