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Jessy Loranger, Sebastian T. Meyer, Bill Shipley, Jens Kattge, Hannah Loranger, Christiane Roscher, Christian Wirth, Wolfgang W. Weisser. 2013. Predicting invertebrate herbivory from plant traits: Polycultures show strong nonadditive effects. Ecology 94:1499–1509. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-2063.1

Appendix D. Correlation matrix of the different community properties of the communities in the Jena Experiment.

Table D1. Correlation matrix of different community properties of the communities in the Jena Experiment.

 

Biomass

Realized
species
richness

Sown
species
richness

Shannon
diversity
index

Evenness

Rao’s functional
diversity index

Functional
dispersion

Biomass

1

 

 

 

 

 

 

Realized species richness

0.50

1

 

 

 

 

 

Sown species richness

0.56

0.87

1

 

 

 

 

Shannon diversity index

0.44

0.88

0.87

1

 

 

 

Evenness

(0.23)

(0.18)

0.38

0.56

1

 

 

Rao’s functional diversity index

0.37

0.68

0.75

0.88

0.62

1

 

Functional dispersion

0.38

0.69

0.76

0.90

0.71

0.97

1

Notes: Correlation coefficients in brackets represent nonsignificant correlations (p value > 0.05). Functional diversity and functional dispersion were calculated with the “dbFD” function of the “FD” package for R (Laliberté and Shipley 2011).

Literature cited

Laliberté, E., and B. Shipley. 2011. FD: measuring functional diversity from multiple traits, and other tools for functional ecology. R package version 1.0-11.


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