Measuring beta diversity for presence–absence data

By Patricia Koleff, Kevin J. Gaston, J. Lennon. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Distance decay of similarity among European urban floras: the impact of anthropogenic activities on β diversity (2008, methodology): “We estimated the level of compositional similarity between pairs of floras using the β-sim dissimilarity index which has a range from 0 to 1, high similarity to low similarity, respectively (Lennon et al., 2001; Koleff et al., 2003).”
Patterns of beta diversity in Europe: the role of climate, land cover and distance across scales (2012, methodology): “Therefore, we quantified dissimilarity in species composition (beta diversity) using the bsim index (Koleff et al., 2003), which is expressed as bsim ¼ minðb; cÞ minðb; cÞ þ a ð1Þ where a is the number of species that are shared between two grid cells, b is the number of species that occur in the…”
Functional homogenization exceeds taxonomic homogenization among European fish assemblages (2014, background): “historically totally distinct (a = 0), dissimilarity was entirely driven by turnover, as all the diversity present in the poorest assemblage was also present in the richest one (Koleff et al., 2003).”
New similarity indices for the assignment of relevés to the vegetation units of an existing phytosociological classification (2005, methodology): “These qualitative and quantitative indices were originally designed to measure the compositional similarity between two sites (Boyce and Ellison 2001; Koleff et al. 2003).”
From communities to continents: beta diversity of herbivorous insects (2005, background): “These trends combined should result in an increasing rate of species turnover from high to low latitudes, a pattern indeed confirmed for vertebrates and plants, but no information is available on insects (Koleff et al. 2003b, Rodriguez & Arita 2004).”
Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time. (2008, background): “Beta diversity (often referred to as turnover) is the change in species composition across geographic space (Whittaker 1960, 1972) and can be calculated many different ways ( Koleff et al. 2003 ).”
Habitat heterogeneity, species diversity and null models (2005, background): “The Wilson-Shmida index (bT) considers differences only in terms of the presence or absence of species (Wilson and Shmida 1984): bT g(H) l(H) 2a (1) where g(H) is the number of species present in habitat 2 but not in habitat 1, l(H) is the number of species present in habitat 1 but not habitat 2,…”
Scale dependence in the species-richness-productivity relationship: The role of species turnover (2004, result): “Our results using Jaccard’s dissimilarity index as a measure of species turnover were qualitatively similar to results obtained using an alternate measure of species turnover (bsim) advocated by Koleff et al. (2003).”
A framework for delineating biogeographical regions based on species distributions (2010, methodology): “Three broad categories of indices can be distinguished (Koleff et al., 2003): indices that focus on richness gradients, on differences in species composition or on both.”