Andrés Baselga. 2010. Multiplicative partition of true diversity yields independent alpha and beta components; additive partition does not. Ecology 91:1974–1981.

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R scripts for conducting the simulations described in the main text.
Ecological Archives E091-135-S1.

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Andrés Baselga
Departamento de Zoología, Facultad de Biología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
c/ Lope Gómez de Marzoa s/n,
15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: andres.baselga@usc.es

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simulations.R

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The code included in simulations.R allows conducting the simulations described as Procedure 1 and Procedure 2 in the main text, as well as the computations for comparing the joint probabilities of two random events involving alpha (or gamma) and beta pairs with the product of marginal probabilities.