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Fig. 2 | Forest Ecosystems

Fig. 2

From: Quantifying multiple-site compositional turnover in an Afrotemperate forest, using zeta diversity

Fig. 2

Zeta diversity declines with zeta order. Zeta diversity represents the average number of shared species (red dots; grey band with yellow bounds: ±0.5 Standard deviation); zeta order represents the number of sites in the calculation of zeta diversity. Green curves represent the ±0.5 Standard deviation range of zeta diversity from the null model (1000 runs) keeping row sums (species occupancy) the same as observed. Red curves represent the ±0.5 Standard deviation range of zeta diversity from the null model (1000 runs) keeping column sums (site richness [habitat heterogeneity]) the same as observed. The observed zeta diversity decline follows a power law (blue curve)

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