Rethinking the relationship between nestedness and beta diversity: a comment on Baselga (2010)

被引：69

作者：

Almeida-Neto, Mario ^{[1
]}

Frensel, Daniella M. B. ^{[2
]}

Ulrich, Werner ^{[3
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Fed Goias UFG, Inst Ciencias Biol, Dept Ecol, BR-74001970 Goiania, Go, Brazil

[2] Univ Brasilia UnB, Inst Ciencias Biol, Programa Posgrad Ecol, BR-70919970 Brasilia, DF, Brazil

[3] Nicolaus Copernicus Univ, Dept Anim Ecol, PL-87100 Torun, Poland

来源：

GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY | 2012年 / 21卷 / 07期

关键词：

Gradient analysis; nested subset pattern; network; metacommunity; presence-absence matrix; species turnover; NULL MODEL ANALYSIS; SIMILARITY; TURNOVER;

D O I：

10.1111/j.1466-8238.2011.00709.x

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

Baselga [Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19, 134143, 2010] proposed pairwise (beta nes) and multiple-site (beta NES) beta-diversity measures to account for the nestedness component of beta diversity. We used empirical, randomly created and idealized matrices to show that both measures are only partially related to nestedness and do not fit certain fundamental requirements for consideration as true nestedness-resultant dissimilarity measures. Both beta nes and beta NES are influenced by matrix size and fill, and increase or decrease even when nestedness remains constant. Additionally, we demonstrate that beta NES can yield high values even for matrices with no nestedness. We conclude that beta nes and beta NES are not true measures of the nestedness-resultant dissimilarity between sites. Actually, they quantify how differences in species richness that are not due to species replacement contribute to patterns of beta diversity. Finally, because nestedness is a special case of dissimilarity in species composition due to ordered species loss (or gain), the extent to which differences in species composition is due to nestedness can be measured through an index of nestedness.

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