Chapter 8: Diversity measures, dominance curves and other graphical analyses
8.1 Univariate measures
A variety of different statistics (single numbers) can be used as measures of some attribute of c...
8.2 Graphical/distributional plots
The purpose of graphical/distributional representations is to extract information on patterns of ...
8.3 Examples: Garroch Head and Ekofisk macrofauna
Plots of geometric abundance classes along a transect across the Garroch Head {G} sewage-sludge d...
8.4 Examples: Loch Linnhe and Garroch Head macrofauna
ABC curves for the macrobenthos at site 34 in Loch Linnhe, Scotland {L} between 1963 and 1973 are...
8.5 Multivariate tools used on univariate data
Ekofisk macrofauna: testing dominance curves Fig. 8.5b compares the averaged community samples fo...
8.6 Example: Plymouth particle-size data
Fig. 8.15 is from Coulter Counter data of particle-size distributions for estuarine water samples...
8.7 Multiple diversity indices
A large number of different diversity measures can be computed from a single data set and it is r...