A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 1. Defining beta diversity as a function of alpha and gamma diversity

By Hanna Tuomisto. 2010

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Ecological Modeling, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Undersampling and the measurement of beta diversity (2013, methodology): “…as link between species diversity at local and regional scales (i.e. alpha and gamma diversity), but many studies employed, explicitly or implicitly, quite different ideas on how to quantify the phenomenon, e.g. various (dis)similarity metrics between pairs of communities (Tuomisto 2010a).”
Biodiversity patterns in a macroinvertebrate community of a temporary pond network (2014, background): “…ecology, b-diversity, which is the variation in species composition among sites in a geographical area (Legendre et al., 2005; but see e.g. Tuomisto, 2010; Anderson et al., 2011), is a key concept for understanding ecosystem functionality from a management and conservation perspective.”
Niche breadth, rarity and ecological characteristics within a regional flora spanning large environmental gradients (2012, background): “In the recent literature, several authors have attempted to gather all these beta-diversity indices into a more comprehensive framework in order to guide ecologists in their choices (Jost, 2006, 2007; de Bello et al., 2010; Tuomisto, 2010a,b; Anderson et al., 2011).”
Consistent patterns of elevational change in tree taxonomic and phylogenetic diversity across Malesian mountain forests (2013, methodology): “Between-site changes in taxonomic diversity (b-diversity) were investigated according to the assumption that b-diversity is a function of a-diversity and c-diversity (Tuomisto, 2010a).”
betapart: an R package for the study of beta diversity (2012, methodology): “In the narrowest sense, it is the simple ratio between gamma and alpha diversities (Jost 2007; Tuomisto 2010; Jura-sinski & Koch 2011), which only diﬀers from 1 when local sites diﬀer in species composition.”
A general framework for analyzing beta diversity, nestedness and related community-level phenomena based on abundance data (2013, background): “…beta diversity with two broad categories of measures: beta as a pairwise dissimilarity coefficient between sites (Anderson et al., 2006, 2010; Tuomisto 2010a,b) or as the ratio of two inventory diversities measured at different scales (i.e. gamma/alpha; Lande, 1996; Veech et al., 2002; Jost,…”
A diversity of beta diversities: straightening up a concept gone awry. Part 2. Quantifying beta diversity and related phenomena (2010, methodology): “The first part of the present review (Tuomisto 2010) discussed eight different basic definitions of ‘‘beta diversity’’.”
Climatic history and dispersal ability explain the relative importance of turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity (2012, background): “Beta diversity is a © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd DOI: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00671.x http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/geb 191 well-established and widely used concept in ecology and has been measured in different ways and for various purposes (for a review see Tuomisto, 2010a,b).”