The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness

• Published in: Global ecology and biogeography Vol. 21; no. 12; pp. 1223 - 1232
• Main Author: Baselga, Andrés
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2012; Blackwell Publishing; Blackwell; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Animal and plant ecology; Animal ecology; Animal nesting; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Beta diversity; Biodiversity; Biogeography; Biological and medical sciences; Compost; dissimilarity; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; MACROECOLOGICAL METHODS; nestedness; Population ecology; Resultants; richness differences; spatial turnover; Species; Species diversity; species replacement; Studies; Synecology; Zero; Nested subset; Turnover; species replacement; Biogeography; nestedness; Beta diversity; Ecology; Replacement; spatial turnover; richness differences; dissimilarity; Species richness

Aim: Beta diversity can be partitioned into two components: dissimilarity due to species replacement and dissimilarity due to nestedness (Baselga, 2010, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19, 134—143). Several contributions have challenged this approach or proposed alternative frameworks. Here, I revi...