Hello everybody, My name is Alexandre and I am part of a research on beta diversity of the Brazilian savanna, known as Cerrado. Someone suggested to us to use the Jaccard fuzzy index of similarity. However, I am determined to use the Bsim simpson index as proposed by Baselga in 2010 (Global Ecology and Biogeography) since it captures the turnover component of beta diversity only, excluding the nestedness component. However, I am in doubt regarding the Jaccard index, which is not included in the comparative table of the 2010 paper. Am I right to suppose the Jaccard index (be it fuzzy or not) also mixes both turnover and nestedness as the Sorensen index?
Thank you in advance for any thoughts, Alexandre -- Dr. Alexandre F. Souza Professor Associado Chefe do Departamento de Ecologia Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte CB, Departamento de Ecologia Campus Universitário - Lagoa Nova 59072-970 - Natal, RN - Brasil lattes: lattes.cnpq.br/7844758818522706 http://www.esferacientifica.com.br https://www.youtube.com/user/alexfadigas http://www.docente.ufrn.br/alexsouza orcid.org/0000-0001-7468-3631 <http://www.docente.ufrn.br/alexsouza> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
