Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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6294485 | Ecological Indicators | 2015 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Multiple-site dissimilarity may be caused by two opposite processes of meta-community organization, such as species nestedness and turnover. Therefore, discriminating among these contributions is necessary for linking multiple-site dissimilarity to ecosystem functioning. This paper introduces a measure of multiple-site dissimilarity or beta diversity for presence/absence data that is based on information on species absences from the species Ã sites matrix. It is also shown that the newly proposed dissimilarity index can be additively partitioned into species nestedness and turnover.
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Authors
Carlo Ricotta, Sandrine Pavoine,