Measuring biodiversity change – how useful are indices?

McDonald, Claire; Smith, Rognvald; Scott, Marion; Dick, Jan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4180-9338. 2010 Measuring biodiversity change – how useful are indices? [Poster] In: V International Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Modelling (METMAV), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 30th June - 2nd July 2010. (Unpublished)

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Abstract/Summary

Biodiversity indices are widely used to measure diversity differences between areas or within the same area but through time. However, conclusions may be made about the study area based on the calculation of one value with confidence intervals or standard errors of the index rarely reported. The aim of this study it to assess the use of biodiversity indices in detecting diversity change with time using a bootstrap technique. The abundance of beetle species at 12 terrestrial sites in the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) from 1993-2008 were used to calculate 4 biodiversity indices: Shannon-Weiner, Simpson’s, Berger-Parker and Pielou’s indices. 90% confidence intervals for each index per site per year were generated using a bootstrap technique. The size of the confidence interval for all indices varied across sites and time periods, however, the intervals did not always overlap. Preliminary results indicate that the biodiversity indices can be used to detect differences between habitat types and time periods. The effect of the sampling unit on the bootstrap technique will be investigated further.

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Poster)
Programmes:	CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 - 2012 > Biodiversity > BD Topic 3 - Managing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Environment
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Watt
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	12 Oct 2010 10:50 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10402

Item Type:

Publication - Conference Item (Poster)

Programmes:

CEH Topics & Objectives 2009 - 2012 > Biodiversity > BD Topic 3 - Managing Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in a Changing Environment

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Watt

NORA Subject Terms:

Ecology and Environment

Date made live:

12 Oct 2010 10:50 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/10402