Chapter 17: Biodiversity and dissimilarity measures based on relatedness of species
17.1 Species richness disadvantages
Chapter 8 discussed a range of diversity indices based on species richness and the species abunda...
17.2 Average taxonomic diversity and distinctness
Two measures, which address some of the problems identified with species richness and the other d...
17.3 Examples: Ekofisk oil-field and Tees Bay soft-sediment macrobenthos
The earlier Fig. 14.4 demonstrated a change in the sediment macrofaunal communities around the Ek...
17.4 Other relatedness measures
The remainder of this chapter deals only with data in the form of a species list for a locality (...
17.5 ‘Expected distinctness’ tests
Species master list The construction of taxonomic distinctness indices from simple species lists ...
17.6 Example: UK free-living nematodes
examined 14 species lists from a range of different habitats and impacted/undisturbed UK areas (...
17.7 Example: N Europe groundfish surveys
An investigation of the taxonomic structure of demersal fish assemblages in the North Sea, Englis...
17.8 Variation in taxonomic distinctness, $\Lambda ^ +$
VarTD was defined in equation (17.7), as the variance of the taxonomic distances {$\omega _ {ij}$...
17.9 Joint (AvTD, VarTD) analyses
The histogram and funnel plots of Figs. 17.7 and 17.8 are univariate analyses, concentrating on o...
17.10 Concluding remarks on taxonomic distinctness
Early applications of taxonomic distinctness ideas in marine science can be found in for demersa...
17.11 Taxonomic dissimilarity
A natural extension of the ideas of this chapter is from $\alpha$- or ‘spot’ diversity indices to...
17.12 Examples
Example: Island fish species lists Fish species lists extracted from FishBase (www. fishbase.org)...