Ecological Archives E094-265-A1

Masahiro Aiba, Masatoshi Katabuchi, Hino Takafumi, Shin-ichiro S. Matsuzaki, Takehiro Sasaki, Tsutom Hiura. 2013. Robustness of trait distribution metrics for community assembly studies under the uncertainties of assembly processes. Ecology 94:2873–2885. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/13-0269.1

Appendix A. Summary of the metrics examined in the study.

Table A1. Summary of the metrics examined in the study. :species richness, : trait value, : set of trait values , : nearest neighbor distance, : set of nearest neighbor distances , : neighbor distance, : set of length of a minimum spanning tree links, : partial weighted evenness, : sum of deviances of the S species for distances from the centroid of the multi-dimensional trait space, which is calculated without taking into account abundance,: sum of absolute deviances of the S species for distances from the centroid : mean distances of the S species to the centroid. See original papers for details of the definitions. Note that these formulas are only valid for presence/absence cases.

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