Dear friends,
Presently i am working on diversity profile of deep-sea ecosystem of Central Indian Ocean. I used vegan ecological package, in which renyi diversity order, fisher log series , Taxonomic distinctness, species abundance curve etc used to model diversity, my question is classical diversity indices also need to describe the quantitative measurements, is this models are suitable for a deep sea ecosystem ( the sampling are found to be virgin). kindly advise, preferable with some references or papers.
Many thanks in advance
Sileesh Mullasseri
Renyi is just an extension of Shannon's DI and is the logarithm of the true diversity and is useful for communities of all sizes.
See: Biodiversity: Concepts, Patterns, and Measurement
Robert K. Colwell and Journal of Vegetation Science, Vol. 6, No. 2 (Apr., 1995), pp. 283–290.
,check this
Article The taxonomic distinctness of macroinvertebrate communities ...
Hello,
I would use Hill numbers, classical diversity measures can bias your conclusions since you cant use raw indexes to do straightforward comparisons.
Thank you Artëm Sozontov and Pedro Luna
Regards,
Sileesh Mullasseri
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