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Table 2 Biodiversity and space partitioning indices measured for each target tree

From: Effects of local neighbourhood diversity on crown structure and productivity of individual trees in mature mixed-species forests

Measure

Abbreviation

Origin

Reference/Calculation

Neighbour species richness

NSR

Inventory

See methods this publication

Exponential Shannon-Index

eHS

Point cloud/Inventory

Shannon (1948)

Crown complementarity index

CCI

Point cloud

Williams et al. (2017)