Jurasinski, G. and Koch, M. (2011) Commentary: do we have a consistent terminology for species diversity? We are on the way. Oecologia, 167 (4). pp. 893-902.
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A consistent terminology for species diversity is subject of an ongoing debate. Recently Tuomisto (Oecologia 164:853–860, 2010) stated that a consistent terminology for diversity already exists. The paper comments on recent papers by ourselves (Jurasinski et al. Oecologia 159:15–26, 2009) and by Moreno and Rodriguez (Oecologia 163:279–282, 2010). Both started from Whittaker’s diversity concept to discuss the ambiguities of the terminology and propose a new, more consistent terminology that is based on the different approaches to diversity analysis. In contrast, Tuomisto adheres to a strict school of thinking and derives a diversity framework in the sense of Whittaker (alpha, beta, gamma) from the conceptual definition of diversity itself. A third group of papers discusses appropriate methods for the analysis of the variation in species composition. Here, we support the idea that alpha, beta and gamma diversity should be used in a strict sense that is based only on the conceptual definition of diversity. We accordingly extend and modify our terminological concept for species diversity.
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| Additional Information: | We thank many colleagues for intense discussions on species diversity, especially Vroni Retzer, John-Arvid Grytnes, Ole Vetaas and Michael Manthey. Comments by an anonymous reviewer and fruitful discussions with Hanna Tuomisto considerably helped to improve the text. All experiments comply with the current laws of the country in which the experiments were performed. The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Alpha diversity – Beta diversity – Gamma diversity – Diversity partitioning – Species turnover |
| Author Affiliation: | Landscape Ecology and Site Evaluation, Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, University of Rostock, 18051 Rostock, Germany |
| Subjects: | Plant Protection |
| Divisions: | General |
| Depositing User: | Mr B Krishnamurthy |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Mar 2012 06:32 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Mar 2012 06:32 |
| Official URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-011-2126-6 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/3662 |
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