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Excluding tree species richness and focusing only on heterotrophic community richness yielded congruent results (Supplementary Fig. 7c, Supplementary Table 9), because both community richness metrics were highly correlated (Pearson's r = 0.98, P < 0.001).
Changes in cover and taxa richness metrics responded to different abiotic and biotic factors, with cover responding more strongly to exclosure treatment, and taxa richness and turnover responding to disturbance and annual grass invasion.
This approach not only increases investment efficiency but permits priority setting to consider the number of distinct species rather than simply tradeoff between priorities identified based on species richness or endemic species richness metrics.
ESPRIT, on the other hand, underestimates all species richness metrics.
Richness metrics varied in their ability to distinguish sites.
In general, compositional metrics were more similar among sites than richness metrics.
Comparisons between Phragmites and alternate plant communities should consider, in addition to population density and species richness, functional metrics such as organism health (condition), diet, behaviour, reproduction and fitness.
Many approaches to comprehensive assessment of condition are cost prohibitive; thus, there has been a tendency to use broadly applicable indicators such as water clarity, nutrient or contaminant loads and levels, and various biodiversity measures such as species richness as metrics (NRC 2000; Whittier et al. 2002).
Relationships of pteridophyte richness to landscape metrics and to microhabitat variables were analyzed with parsimonious regression models.
Relationships between species richness and design metrics, such as height on shore, volume, surface area and depth of pool were taxa-specific.
However, detection did not differ among treatments in species-list occupancy models, indicating that species richness and similarity metrics assessing differences between forest management strategies without accounting for detection are reliable for this study.
